Dr. Lucky Tran May 30, 2025
Including fake studies and using AI to generate a report should instantly disqualify anyone to lead a scientific agency.
Show threadRowan 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.

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Show threadCassandrichMay 30, 2025
@QNFO @luckytran .. yay for telling on yourself, I guess? 🤷
Show threadCassandrichMay 30, 2025
@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.
Show threadRowan Brad Quni-GudzinasMay 30, 2025
@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.
Show threadRowan Brad Quni-GudzinasMay 30, 2025
@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.
Show threadRowan Brad Quni-GudzinasMay 30, 2025

@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, ...

Show threadRowan Brad Quni-GudzinasMay 30, 2025

@dalias @luckytran

... 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)

Show threadCassandrichMay 30, 2025
@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.
Show threadLisPiMay 31, 2025
@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.
Show threadPatrick O'BeirneMay 31, 2025
@lispi314
We're still capable of laziness.
Show threadLisPiMay 31, 2025
@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.
Show threadFrank Bennett 🇯🇵May 30, 2025
@QNFO @dalias @luckytran Reaching for the Cliff Notes version of reality instead of the word processor is the original disqualifying mistake.
Show threadCassandrichMay 30, 2025
@QNFO @luckytran Using a slop generator and pretending you wrote the output without even being aware of the content is already scholarly misconduct.
Show threadNeville ParkMay 30, 2025

@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.

Show threadRowan Brad Quni-GudzinasMay 30, 2025
@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.
Show threadRowan Brad Quni-GudzinasMay 30, 2025

@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 🙄

Show threadI AM BANKSY ☕ / 🗑‍🔥May 31, 2025
@QNFO
How much of this paper of yours was authored, uncredited and unreferenced by a machine?
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