Dr. Lucky Tran 
Including fake studies and using AI to generate a report should instantly disqualify anyone to lead a scientific agency.
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Chris
Rowan Brad Quni-Gudzinas@luckytran Do you have anyone in mind? I use AI to generate reports often. I just did...
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15555539
The #fake studies thing is problematic but that's a #human #editor not #fact checking.
Cassandrich@QNFO @luckytran .. yay for telling on yourself, I guess? 🤷
@QNFO @luckytran If someone submits a report citing fake studies, that's scholarly misconduct, and the primary party at fault is the one engaged in that misconduct, not the one who failed to sufficiently police them.
@dalias @luckytran since I do not know what prompted the OP, I wish not to take sides in someone else's issue. Reckless or fraudulent behavior is clearly unacceptable. But what I suspect is the case is one of #AI #hallucination and #human carelessness: like the "AI lawyer" who didn't bother to check that the cases #ChatGPT spit out were real.
@dalias @luckytran ...if so, then my soapbox is one of growing pains: #AI #language models are becoming indispensable, like it or not. If the report at issue endangered lives or was a deliberate lie, so be it. Otherwise, we would do well to better #understand how an #LLM works to avoid such mistakes as writers and judge those we find more as typos than #plagiarism.
@dalias @luckytran What do I mean by "typo instead of plagiarism?" This was in a recent article I authored:
“Note on References: This work is a collaborative effort between the human author and an AI large language model (Google's Gemini). As a knowledge synthesis, the content is generated from a vast corpus of information, and the process of identifying and citing specific references is akin to reverse-engineering. While every attempt is made to ensure accuracy and avoid hallucination, ...
... the reference generation process fundamentally differs from conventional research, which typically starts with individual works. This approach may result in imperfections in the completeness or verifiability of all external links, as the primary goal is to synthesize coherent knowledge rather than to meticulously track every source in a traditional bibliographic manner.”
(Can't wait for the replies. The OP issue may be different but it strikes a chord heard regularly)
@QNFO @luckytran No they are not "indispensable". It's clear that you're here to be a dutiful cult member pushing that narrative, and the more you push it, the more slimy it all looks to the rest of us.
LisPi@QNFO @luckytran @dalias > ...if so, then my soapbox is one of growing pains: #AI #language models are becoming indispensable, like it or not.
How have they done so? You seem to still be capable of writing.
How have they done so? You seem to still be capable of writing.
Patrick O'Beirne@lispi314
We're still capable of laziness.
We're still capable of laziness.
@PatrickOBeirne Not bothering to do one's work properly without fraudulent behavior & scholarly misconduct is a rather strong argument for not doing it at all. It'll do less harm.
Frank Bennett 🇯🇵@QNFO @dalias @luckytran Reaching for the Cliff Notes version of reality instead of the word processor is the original disqualifying mistake.
@QNFO @luckytran Using a slop generator and pretending you wrote the output without even being aware of the content is already scholarly misconduct.
Neville Park@QNFO @luckytran ……fucking yikes
Upon doing a little googling, it seems your formal educational background is in urban planning, which probably explains why you're relying on LLMs to write about artificial intelligence, quantum computing, and quantum physics.
@nev ...and what are your credentials to judge? No one seems to have asked for your #hater #opinion, and you fail to understand why that's an excellent (if surprising) interdisciplinary degree to have for such research (+ tech career).
At least those who wish to stake out a claim as a Neo- #Luddite will have their remarks preserved here for posterity to judge them.
At least those who wish to stake out a claim as a Neo- #Luddite will have their remarks preserved here for posterity to judge them.
@luckytran okay yeah I just figured it out. Not condoning that behavior at all. I had no idea who or what you referred to. I'm abroad and I certainly don't watch US news anymore...
Maybe #AI will do a better job revising tariffs 🙄
I AM BANKSY ☕ / 🗑🔥@QNFO
How much of this paper of yours was authored, uncredited and unreferenced by a machine?
@luckytran
How much of this paper of yours was authored, uncredited and unreferenced by a machine?
@luckytran
NKT@luckytran He was already unqualified!
EndemicEarthling@luckytran Add it to the massive pile of disqualifying factors he's already accumulated.
Green Roc Thoughts@luckytran I been terrified and abused by people based on his lies, about time someone steps in and debunks his BS.
RFK Jr should never have been hired to be in charge of healthcare everywhere. #USpol
Negahyphen@luckytran Or practice law. Or win a contract bid. Or be awarded a degree/certification. AI output is good but relying on it without critically reviewing the output is professional malpractice.
@Negahyphen @luckytran AI output is a toy pistol that shoots real bullets.
Frannoval@luckytran and any position in the government in any capacity
@luckytran And should subject the person to prosecution for fraud on the basis of whatever thing of value they were trying to obtain by doing so.
Fan of Shared Truth & Empathy@luckytran It has to be said. But somehow, it makes absolutely no difference to a government based on lies and corruption. America has abandoned truth and reality for propaganda and bullshit.
Class Wario@luckytran so should not being a scientist
@luckytran he's not leading a scientific agency. He's leading an agency tasked with reducing the population of non-wealthy, non-white people in the United states. He is eminently qualified.
Danni Storm@luckytran It's malfeasance and misconduct. It's fraud. Send in a report to the GAO for fraud. That's what he is and that's what he is doing. He also is violating his word to Congress members that he wouldn't touch vaccines.
I sent in a two page scathing report as a fraud complaint. Will I do anything? Probably not but at the very least someone will have to look at it.
Samhain Night@danni_storm @luckytran Pile on enough straws and eventually the camel's back breaks.
Kevin Karhan 
@luckytran I remember times when doing so would get undergrad students expelled and disqualified from university and deny-listed by academic affairs for "gross violation of academic standards and ethics"…
- Cuz that's worse than cheating exams!
UCF Professor Richard Quinn accuses class of cheating [Original]
Wulfy—Speaker to the machinesI agree!
The inability to use #AI ought to be as disqualifying as failure to use Google scholar or use the library paper database.
Basic computer literacy is a must In the #Science community!
I see so many allegedly eduhcated folk unable to construct even the most basic prompt 🤪
#promptengineering
Bee O'Problem 
One should not need to do "prompt engineering" to get useful information from an AI if it actually was fit for purpose.
The pitch is "give it data, ask a question, get answer based on the data" not "give it data, ask a question, get fiction inspired by the data"
Prompt engineering is a field that should not exist if AI actually works in this context.
Google Foo > Google.
One needs to know how to use the simplest tool.
Just because a hammer is "Easy to use" will not prevent sore thumbs if you do not practice with the tool.
AI is not a magic genie, it's more of a monkey paw. Do not fall for the #broligarch propaganda. You need to know how to use AI effectively...just as you need to learn how to use...anything.
ᛋᛁᚵᛁᛋᛘᚢᚾᛑ ᚾᛁᚾᛃᛅ@luckytran I don't see why one should not use AI for report generation. There is nothing inherently wrong with that. People spend way too much time writing reports which nobody reads. I would prefer a future where the "scientist" provide key data and then let the reader generate her own tailored report/article from that data. I guess that's already the case for many.
@sigismundninja @luckytran because current AI is utterly incompetent at the job?
@sigismundninja
The head of the American HHS should not use (or allow to be used) AI to generate a document called "Make Our Children Healthy Again", that cites at least one imaginary paper crediting it to a real author that did no such thing. Classic "hallucination" though I hate that term.
Philip Theus@luckytran how does that apply to people that were never qualified in the first place?
@luckytran He is a menace to humanity.
PedestrianError 
@luckytran Lead? It should disqualify anyone involved from working as an entry-level data analyst.
Cameron Purdy@luckytran I am afraid that you have that backwards: In the current administration, those are considered to be the requirements for getting hired.