Daniel Dvorkin<p>Good look at a bad problem. The author is a friend from grad schol at the <a href="https://qoto.org/tags/University" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>University</span></a> of <a href="https://qoto.org/tags/Colorado" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Colorado</span></a>, where she was a faculty member when I was a grad student. She’s since gone on to bigger and better things, and I’ve gone on to … well, things.</p><p>Anyway. I’ve never been particularly worried about <a href="https://qoto.org/tags/Cylons" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Cylons</span></a>, <a href="https://qoto.org/tags/Skynet" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Skynet</span></a>, etc. Humans doing stupid human tricks, and using <a href="https://qoto.org/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AI</span></a> to do them much faster, OTOH, yeah.</p><p>The internet community of anti-science <a href="https://qoto.org/tags/cranks" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>cranks</span></a> is an example of <a href="https://qoto.org/tags/model" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>model</span></a> <a href="https://qoto.org/tags/collapse" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>collapse</span></a> happening at human speed. <a href="https://qoto.org/tags/Antivaxers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Antivaxers</span></a>, <a href="https://qoto.org/tags/creationists" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>creationists</span></a>, <a href="https://qoto.org/tags/climate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>climate</span></a> change <a href="https://qoto.org/tags/deniers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>deniers</span></a> et al. prey on people with legitimate questions about some particular aspect of the broad <a href="https://qoto.org/tags/consensus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>consensus</span></a>. Those people often go down an increasingly loony rabbit hole, and end up propagating the absurdity, sometimes adding their own bizarre spin which their new-found colleagues happily add to the ideology.</p><p>If this becomes part of the <a href="https://qoto.org/tags/academic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>academic</span></a> ecosystem, with AI reviewers approving AI-generated <a href="https://qoto.org/tags/papers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>papers</span></a> and no human checks on the process, the scholarly corpus will become hopelessly contaminated. I have no idea what to do about that.</p><p><a href="https://theconversation.com/a-new-ai-scientist-can-write-science-papers-without-any-human-input-heres-why-thats-a-problem-237029" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">theconversation.com/a-new-ai-s</span><span class="invisible">cientist-can-write-science-papers-without-any-human-input-heres-why-thats-a-problem-237029</span></a></p>