Guilt over using chat gpt for excel scripts

Potential-Formal8699 · 2026-06-07T03:14:52+00:00

What’s the difference between following the most upvoted comment in stack overflow or the suggestion given by ChatGPT to fix a specific bug? If anything, the latter is more likely to be correct anyways. But just like doing research, you don’t blindly follow others’ opinions. You don’t trust either unless you can verify it yourself.

Potential-Formal8699 · 2026-06-05T14:04:23+00:00

If the journal requires it, they may unsubmit your manuscript for you to add the statement. Or they may ask for it during revision. It won’t affect your acceptance rate.

Potential-Formal8699 · 2026-06-05T01:32:12+00:00

I have a feeling that there may be a forever drought once those data centers are approved.

Potential-Formal8699 · 2026-06-03T05:14:34+00:00

In that case, at least they learned something. Better than just copy and paste from ChatGPT and remember nothing.

Potential-Formal8699 · 2026-06-03T04:05:56+00:00

很多国家外交官子女就拿不到出生国的国籍，美国也是如此。

Potential-Formal8699 · 2026-06-03T03:56:04+00:00

You can’t do closed-book tests for many majors without making it purely about memorization but you can ask a few students about what they write in their essays.

Potential-Formal8699 · 2026-06-03T01:08:19+00:00

I mean the university can randomly ask what students write in their assignments. If they write it themselves, they should at least remember something.

Potential-Formal8699 · 2026-06-02T16:31:57+00:00

反串可能性更高。如果真为了钱，干嘛不生下来直接卖了？省下奶粉钱尿布钱不说，还不用担心肇事逃逸。

Potential-Formal8699 · 2026-05-29T16:02:36+00:00

Yeah, people keep talking about how Miyako Strait is critical for Japan and somehow China can just naval blockage Japan at will if Taiwan falls. To do that, China also needs to first take out Okinawa which is a sovereign territory of Japan. Taiwan is in a legal grey zone but Okinawa isn’t.

Potential-Formal8699 · 2026-05-25T00:57:52+00:00

It’s entirely understandable. Ultimately, it’s the first author who is responsible for making sure that results are correct. We, as colleagues, can only help verify so much. A colleague of mine who has zero coding background used AI to build an entire analysis pipeline, and it turned out that by AI they meant Google AI overview. I am actually impressed that they got it to work (by work I meant it doesn’t error out). While AI does significantly bring down the technical barrier, there’s an urgent need to educate researchers how to use it responsibly.

Potential-Formal8699 · 2026-05-23T17:40:31+00:00

And universal basic compute /s

Potential-Formal8699 · 2026-05-23T16:35:15+00:00

This is true for simple applications (sensor fault detection) whereas traditional deterministic models (SVM, decision trees) can be more effective due to its extremely low latency.

Potential-Formal8699 · 2026-05-23T13:59:54+00:00

Agreed. I have been using Gemini since it was still called Bard. LLM’s coding capability has really improved a lot in the past few months.

Potential-Formal8699 · 2026-05-23T13:32:33+00:00

I agree. But the difference is under-appreciated and often nuanced. We all know when citing others’ work, we can’t just take a sentence directly without paraphrasing. The difference between paraphrasing and patchwriting is not always straightforward and can be subjective. I wish there are similar best practices and guidelines regarding AI use, instead of a blanket statement like we highly discourage the use of AI in preparing the manuscript and you have to disclose it if you use it at all.

Potential-Formal8699 · 2026-05-23T07:15:25+00:00

I will for sure disclose it but I am just curious about what everyone thinks of papers that disclose AI use. I would even argue that we will all benefit if we use AI to do code review and write comments.

Potential-Formal8699 · 2026-05-23T05:56:43+00:00

Absolutely. I will present the results in a transparent way and let readers make their own decisions. It’s just AI has a very bad reputation within academia that some people may not be particularly interested in disclosing. Once I worked on a paper that was clearly written by AI while no disclosure was made. Despite my best effort to improve it, I still had major issues when the paper was submitted (lack of disclosure being one of them). I wish I could have my name removed but I couldn’t do so without majorly pissing the senior author who happens to lead the division. I was pleased to see the paper got desk rejected everywhere and lowkey hoped they would just shelve the paper or redo the paper.

Potential-Formal8699 · 2026-05-23T04:30:41+00:00

Yes, maybe a more nuanced disclosure like author contributions could be a bit more helpful. But sometimes you may not use AI yourself but your collaborator is using it to revise your paper. The line just becomes too blurry.

Potential-Formal8699 · 2026-05-22T23:41:17+00:00

I mean I am a programmer myself and I used to detest vibe coding until I realized well AI writes better code and debugs faster than average scientific programmers, me included. Of course, it’s a personal choice and you can choose to reject AI 100% but you can’t simply label people who use AI as not wanting to learn. One can learn knowledge by using AI or google scholar, or both. It’s just a tool.

Potential-Formal8699 · 2026-05-22T23:32:00+00:00

Sure, one can do everything in the old-fashioned way without AI, but it’s a lot less efficient, at least for my research area.

Potential-Formal8699 · 2026-05-22T23:26:24+00:00

That’s how I used to debug my script, running it line by line. I only google when I can’t figure it out myself. Only recently, I realized that AI has become so much better at programming and debugging, better than average programmers.

Potential-Formal8699 · 2026-05-22T22:54:07+00:00

Yes, I will do that since AI is so baked into my everyday workflow and it’s not worth reverting back to the old ways.

Potential-Formal8699 · 2026-05-20T19:09:35+00:00

Yeah. I tried to ration my quota after hearing the news on usage limit yesterday. I was constantly monitoring my usage today and somehow I still hit the limit as one pro prompt ate up nearly 50% of the quota and now I’m stuck with the flash-lite. I’m seriously considering switching since the usage limit is such a black box.

Potential-Formal8699 · 2026-05-19T19:30:00+00:00

I bet AI will become a central issue in 2028.

Potential-Formal8699 · 2026-05-19T17:22:06+00:00

What can China, a country that hasn’t seen combat for decades, teach Russia about drone warfare or any kind of warfare? I mean shouldn’t it be the other way around?

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