AI is a wake-up call for those doing scholarship by numbers

ChatGPT must compel humanities scholars to rethink their acceptance of intellectual mediocrity and lax standards, says James Walker

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April 2, 2023

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April 2, 2023

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Reader's comments (1)

#1 Submitted by oliver.... on April 2, 2023 - 1:10pm

Superb. AI exposes rife mediocrity in scholarship, but little more so far at least.

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