I would rather quit NLP than read another paper like this: The rise of antithesis in NLP papers
For better or worse, LLMs are by now used routinely for scientific writing.\footnote{This paper is no exception; we did use AI to assist with writing some of the sections (see Acknowledgments).} Many have noticed that recent models fill papers with unnecessary antithesis, stating over and over what the work does not do, in ways that do not contribute to its precision or quality of expression and annoy reviewers \emph{rather than impressing them}. We study the construction \emph{rather than} in ACL papers from 2019, ACL-style arXiv papers from 2026, and papers written by GPT models from the same titles and abstracts. Its rate in 2026 is seven times the 2019 rate, and higher still in the GP...
| Authors | Olga Zamaraeva, Adrián Gude, Roi Santos-Ríos et al. |
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| Primary category | cs.CL |
| Published | 7 October 2026 |
| Last updated at source | 7 October 2026 |
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