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- pivot-to-ai.com How to make a splash in AI economics: fake your data
In a fast-moving field like “AI,” with buzzwords and dumb money flying about, researchers don’t have time for for the peer review process. Preprints can have all the impact you could ever want! Let…
- Does AI make researchers more productive? What? Why would it? Apparently you can just say that and almost get published!thebsdetector.substack.com AI, Materials, and Fraud, Oh My!
The red flags we should have seen earlier for a too-good-to-be-true paper on AI tool adoption at a materials research firm
This is a nice post, but it has such an annoying sentence right in the intro:
> At the time I saw the press coverage, I didn’t bother to click on the actual preprint and read the work. The results seemed unsurprising: when researchers were given access to AI tools, they became more productive. That sounds reasonable and expected.
What? What about it sounds reasonable? What about it sounds expected given all we know about AI??
I see this all the time. Why do otherwise skeptical voices always have the need to put in a weakening statement like this. "For sure, there are some legitimate uses of AI" or "Of course, I'm not claiming AI is useless" like why are you not claiming that. You probably should be claiming that. All of this garbage is useless until proven otherwise! "AI does not increase productivity" is the null hypothesis! It's the only correct skeptical position! Why do you seem to need to extend benefit of the doubt here, like seriously, I cannot explain this in any way.
