LLM like ChatGPT may mean trouble for SEO and online ads, fine. But maybe they will finally make the academia stop using simple productivity/popularity metrics like citation or publication counts as a measure of research quality.
These metrics "work" only because writing and publishing an article comes with a cost and effort (to find an idea, make research, write it down etc). If the cost to writing is almost zero and incentive to publish is so high, the metric will get inflated and stop meaning anything.
Which will be essentially a good thing. We will be forced to find better proxies for quality. But they will also have to be better than asking the PeerReviewGPT to do the research assessment for us... #AcademicTwitter #scientometrics
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