I agree with this directionally, but would add a caveat to your research paper caveat. If it’s a research paper of the type ‘I ran experiment X and found Y’ then yes, I suppose the words don’t matter so much beyond conveying the result—although I’ve found Claude to have a tendency to overclaim and overinterpret results that needs to be carefully kept in check, to the extent that I often think “man it’d have been easier to write this myself!”
But ‘I ran experiment X and found Y’ is not what every research paper is! For many research papers, I definitely care about the ideas of the author and how they convey them, so I’d rather they stay mostly LLM-free.
The arXiv link at the top currently links to the gradual disempowerment preprint.