ML conference debates use of ChatGPT in papers (and why it matters)

Check out all the on-demand sessions from the Intelligent Security Summit here. While that might seem so meta, in its call for paper submissions on Monday, the International Conference on Machine Learning did, indeed, note that "papers that include text generated from a large-scale language model (LLM) such as ChatGPT are prohibited unless these produced text is presented as a part of the paper's experimental analysis." It didn't take long for a brisk social media debate to brew, in what may be a perfect example of what businesses, organizations and institutions of all shapes and sizes, across verticals, will have to grapple with going forward: How will humans deal with the rise of large language models that can help communicate -- or borrow, or expand on, or plagiarize, depending on your point of view -- ideas? As a Twitter debate grew louder over the past two days, a variety of arguments for and against the use of LLMs in ML paper submissions emerged. "So medium and small-scale language models are fine, right?" tweeted Yann LeCun, chief AI scientist at Meta, adding "I'm just asking because, you know… spell checkers and predictive keyboards are language models."