Professor of Empirical Economics & Data Science at TU Munich | Heilbronn Data Science Center (HDSC) | Co-founder of causalscience.org
Paul Hünermund
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The widespread use of LLMs diminishes creative ideas.
An analysis of over 2000 college essays finds that human-written essays contributed more new ideas than GPT-4 written essays www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Parameter- or prompt-modifications does not mitigate the creativity gap.
NBER working papers get too much weight in our profession
And I'm guilty of that too, by the way.
Everyone who stayed there for fear of losing their followers and having to rebuild their follower base elsewhere is enabling this. This is ESPECIALLY so of journalists driven by Main Character Syndrome more than by any real desire to inform the public. History will not look kindly upon that.