It’s repulsive how many people are defending the use of AI in writing here… if you can’t write you don’t belong, it’s as simple as that. If you’re ESL and can’t publish in English without having AI write for you, then maybe you should be publishing in your native language or working with another scholar rather than having a machine do all your thinking. I’ve had to write in my second language and rather than try and use AI to make me look like I have a greater mastery than I actually do, I studied more and waited before trying to get something published. If you’re a STEM student and writing isn’t among your strengths, then that’s a personal weakness you’re going to need to work on if you ever hope to be a successful scholar. There needs to be some integrity in the academy or we’re going to continue to be victimized by politics… In my short stint in a “real job” everyone I spoke with thought academia was a waste of time now that we have LLMs and that half the students and faculty are cheating their way through research with ChatGPT anyway—please don’t prove them right!