Large language models are not the problem

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If a Large Language Model (LLM) can replicate your scientific contribution, the problem is not the LLM. What does it say about our field that so much of the anxiety about AI comes down to the fear that a machine could do what we do? Perhaps it says we should be doing something better.

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    Hiranya V. Peiris

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Peiris, H.V. Large language models are not the problem. Nat Astron 10, 472–474 (2026). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41550-026-02837-2

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