Expensive introductory Springer book on ML appears to be heavily LLM-generated.
After asking for two weeks to respond, the author confe^H^H^H^H^H responds with:
“reliably determining whether content (or an issue) is AI generated remains a challenge, as even human-written text can appear ‘AI-like.’ This challenge is only expected to grow, as LLMs … continue to advance in fluency and sophistication.”
#ai #llm #expensiveslop #springer #ml
https://retractionwatch.com/2025/06/30/springer-nature-book-on-machine-learning-is-full-of-made-up-citations/
Brian Sletten
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