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[–] pHr34kY@lemmy.world 89 points 2 days ago (11 children)

To obtain a PhD, you need to contribute something original to your field of study, not just regurgitate what you've scraped from other studies.

[–] psud@aussie.zone 2 points 2 days ago (2 children)

I wonder whether any LLMs are any good at hypothesis generation

[–] TomArrr@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago

1000 monkeys with typewriters comes to mind

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 2 points 2 days ago

probably not, it will like scrape from sources that arnt even based on research, or research papers, if its allowed to use the internet it will probably process opinions too.

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