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Until this point in history there has been a reasonable correlation between the quality of writing and the "quality" of the underlying work in most text. If effort was put into the writing (and learning to write), that in itself used to be a decent indicator that effort and skill also was put into the data/ideas that the text conveyed.

That rule no longer works. People are still going to rely on it for a while though, and I'm worried it's going to break some stuff over the next few years.

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I think probably the solution here is to stop using publishing in peer reviewed journals as a job requirement for academics. Even before ChatGPT, academic publishing was already falling victim to Goodhart's law. Remove the perverse incentives and it should cut down on this by quite a lot.

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With any luck the endpoint will be a world where texts are evaluated more on their semantics than their syntax.