Brit-Canadian archivist-librarian, trad-classical musician, post-academic philosophy PhD, and other hyphenated things. Can't help it: so much to learn.
@umairjav The upshot seems to be that people are rendering themselves into research assistants gathering physical material in readable form for the bots who get to do the fun stuff with it.
@LlewelynLawton You could ask someone at https://t.co/47ADyzfDDJ. Some of his papers are Yale (bah!) and others held by Dorset https://t.co/PX6CIaoFs1. They might be able to refer you? I swear I read something about his interest in gallery bands.
@PAHoyeck Huh, yeah that's alien to me. That's a weird thing for them to try to do, as any historical account involves interpretation (these thinkers are mostly saying quite complicated things!), which can always be disputed.
The bulk of the human work involved here was gathering the sources so AI could "read" them. Presumably this could have included fetching and transcribing original primary sources from archives. So this chap was essentially a good old-fashioned research assistant for a machine.
🚨Claude Code just gave me a complete research paper with a single prompt.
The paper has a strong argument and even beats AI-detection app, Pangram.
With a little editing, it can pass for 100% human, and can be easily submitted for peer review.
Here's the workflow I used: