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  toerrortoerror@mastodon.gamedev.place

  Oct 3, 2026, 10:48 AM

  @JubalBarca I regularly lose sleep over it all. It's so self defeating. I tell myself that morning person can cope with it, but it doesn't seem to help.
  Is there an accepted way to label your output as completely self written? I expect that this will become something that matters. Many might just refuse to read anything not so labelled ( and yes, people will mislabel things, but the cost of that if discovered would I imagine be high ).

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  James BaillieJubalBarca@scholar.social

  Oct 3, 2026, 10:55 AM

  @toerror Hm, there are various badges I've seen around but I don't know if there's one super accepted one.

  My own biggest worry isn't folks mistaking my writing for LLM content - I think the bigger problem is that people's brains are so burned out from being bombarded with never-ending dross content that they never reach what I write in the first place. The deepest feeling/concern I get is being swamped more than being mimiced.

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  James BaillieJubalBarca@scholar.social

  Oct 3, 2026, 10:55 AM

  @toerror Big empathy with the anxiety over it all and the sleep difficulties though, that is all very relatable and I wish I had better advice to give.

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  toerrortoerror@mastodon.gamedev.place

  Oct 3, 2026, 10:57 AM

  @JubalBarca I expect that's a common feeling. Tagging documents in a consistent way seems like something academia should probably agree on, for the common good.

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  James BaillieJubalBarca@scholar.social

  Oct 3, 2026, 11:04 AM

  @toerror For the peer-reviewed end of academic writing, written AI disclosure statements are becoming the norm in online journal submission forms pretty rapidly. But obviously it's hard to filter by just a written statement, and indeed one of our big problems now is the precarity of search infrastructure for papers in general, most of which is reliant on companies that do not have academia's interests at heart at all (but no actual academics have the sort of strategic capacity to resolve this).

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  toerrortoerror@mastodon.gamedev.place

  Oct 3, 2026, 11:07 AM

  @JubalBarca Sounds like something unions might be able to instigate / coordinate... It's very much in their interest. Though I don't know the influence / extent of them so just a thought I guess.
  [edit] - I also expect the journals themselves are probably going to be worn down by spam submissions as well.

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  Verena RuppVerenaRupp@vivaldi.net

  Oct 3, 2026, 11:20 AM

  @JubalBarca Do you write for others, or for yourself? For me, the creative act in itself is already rewarding. Or just having put my thoughts out there. I've made random comments and posts that had an impact on others; old comments that are still getting new likes years later. Those things aren't always an immediate (or guaranteed) hit, but they might still make a difference yet.

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  James BaillieJubalBarca@scholar.social

  Oct 3, 2026, 12:11 PM

  @VerenaRupp I would say I do both, but most of my writing is communicative: I write introspective notes or small poems for myself to think through things, but when I'm writing blogposts, papers, or bigger stories they feel incomplete to me without another reader.

  You're totally right though about the serendipity/randomness element in how and when things make an impact. I guess I just worry that people are finding it harder to get those moments of stumbling across things given, well, everything.

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