Delving into ChatGPT usage in academic writing through excess vocabulary

Re:Delving into ChatGPT usage in academic writing through ex... by Animats on Saturday June 22, 2024 @08:35PM (#40763577)

Their list:

    delves
    crucial
    potential
    these
    significant
    important

They're not the first to make this observation. Others have picked up that LLM's like the word "delves".

LLMs are trained on texts which contain much marketing material. So they tend to use some marketing words when generating pseudo-academic content. No surprise there. I'm surprised it's not worse.

What happens if you use a prompt containing "Write in a style that maximizes marketing impact"?"

('You can't always use "Free", but you can always use "New"' - from a book on copywriting.)

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Re:Delving into ChatGPT usage in academic writing through ex... by analog31 on Saturday June 22, 2024 @10:54PM (#40764375)

>>> "Write in a style that maximizes marketing impact"

Probably exactly what academics are being told by their university PR departments.

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Re:Delving into ChatGPT usage in academic writing through ex... by Hizonner on Saturday June 22, 2024 @09:33PM (#40763882)

I use at least four of those pretty heavily, and I suspect that I'm in the top quartile in terms of using at least three of them. I guess I'm going to be queued for deactivation now.

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Re:Delving into ChatGPT usage in academic writing through ex... by JumpCrisscross on Sunday June 23, 2024 @01:12AM (#40764971)

If you only note your significant thoughts, marking them as as much is okay. That filter is what AIs lack.

On the upside, the advent of AI has made both vendor selection and project winning simpler. For the former, I can filter within seconds. For the latter, showing examples of competitors’ AI-derived speech is enough to get them eliminated.

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Re:Delving into ChatGPT usage in academic writing through ex... by nicce on Saturday June 22, 2024 @09:27PM (#40763848)

Traditional grammar correction applications usually drop the "important" words as well and suggests something else.

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Re:Delving into ChatGPT usage in academic writing through ex... by SoftTalker on Sunday June 23, 2024 @12:52AM (#40764903)

If you're interested in writing more clearly, avoiding jargon and verbosity, have a look at Essays on CIA Writing

https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/3894798/CIA-RDP78-009...

Despite being published in 1962, I find has a lot of advice that still works today.

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Re:Delving into ChatGPT usage in academic writing through ex... by yannis on Sunday June 23, 2024 @05:27AM (#40766005)

Hehehe good find complete with redactions in some places!

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Re:Delving into ChatGPT usage in academic writing through ex... by bastawhiz on Saturday June 22, 2024 @11:20PM (#40764499)

I've noticed "on this journey" and it's becoming painful to read. It's infuriatingly common and such a tell

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Re:Delving into ChatGPT usage in academic writing through ex... by quartesixte on Sunday June 23, 2024 @02:56PM (#40769680)

The only one here that actually stands out from usage is "delves". Every other word on this list is common usage among anyone who has a decent vocabulary and a literary mind.

But I guess I'll just get flagged for being a GPT now.

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Re:Delving into ChatGPT usage in academic writing through ex... by 3abiton on Tuesday June 25, 2024 @06:28PM (#40794417)

The article title is a cheeky stab at the current trend.

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