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[–] Simyon@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Wouldn't it be OCR in this case? At least the scanning?

[–] ZkhqrD5o@lemmy.world 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Yes, but the LLM does the writing. Someone probably carelessly copy pasta'd some text from OCR.

[–] Simyon@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago

Fair enough, though another possibility I see is that the automated training process for LLMs used OCR for those papers (Or an already existing text version in the internet was using bad OCR) and those papers with the mashed word were written partially or fully by an LLM.

Either way, the blanket term "AI" sucks and it's honestly getting kind of annoying. Same with how much LLMs are used.