If LLMs heighten the contradictions of the political economy of science and push it towards a new model, I won’t be upset about it.
In the current system, that only happens if can get immediately richer or if he can be convinced that it’ll make him richer soon. The contradictions, like in so many other things, are otherwise maintained even at the expense of future profitability.
The field really needs to die and be reborn. The journal model is a relic of a time when only 200 million people could read and write.
Publication output has gone from 1 million in 2000 to 2 million in ~2010, with 3.3 million publications produced in 2022.
If LLMs heighten the contradictions of the political economy of science and push it towards a new model, I won’t be upset about it.
In the current system, that only happens if
can get immediately richer or if he can be convinced that it’ll make him richer soon. The contradictions, like in so many other things, are otherwise maintained even at the expense of future profitability.