I asked the researcher if they had used AI to help them write a paper I copy-edited. I didn’t think they had used it because they had shown interest in the wording of phrases, discussing word choices with me, in an earlier paper and because there were one or two blended phrases and tense issues in it. Phrase blending is common in Taiwanese-written English text.
They wrote back, saying that it was a hot topic in the discipline’s journals, and the journals have different rules.
.. For myself, I only tested AI (chatGPT) about 1 year ago. I felt that
they may be better in engineering, but the text they wrote is not vivid nor
satisfactory to me. Every time if I need to write, I never rely on AI.
I always dig into my literature database and read maybe four or five papers
from my respected researchers as a warm-up, then I start the writing.
I kinda learn this “routine” from my PhD life.Later they added,
It is a sort of weird feeling once you read enough research papers. I think
that I can smell if the paper is written in AI. Sometimes I need to read
/evaluate reports from third -party institution as a judge, and I already
found some wrongly-written content by the authors. The thing is, people who
use AI to assist their writing, normal they didn’t check it again nor
proofread. So you can feel that the content is not humanlike.
I haven't heard any of my colleagues or foreign colleagues who used AI to
draft a paper or proposal.
I never thought of starting my writing with an AI tool. ... I always
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