AI-Generated “Workslop” Is Destroying Productivity
Despite a surge in generative AI use across workplaces, most companies are seeing little measurable ROI. One possible reason is because AI tools are being used to produce “workslop”—content that appea...
This is already happening in research to an alarming degree: researchers, for various reasons, using gen AI to interpret results and write up studies, forcing assistants and coauthors to screen and correct "their" work or passing that labor debt to future researchers encountering their studies.
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DOJ Deletes Study Showing Domestic Terrorists Are Most Often Right Wing
Following Charlie Kirk’s assassination and the Trump administration’s promise to go after the “radical left” a study showing most domestic terrosim is far-right was disappeared.
Publicly-funded research and data continue to be deleted. What steps can we as researchers take to effectively communicate the findings, significance, and veracity of our research as datasets and reports are cut out from under us? As if effective communication was not already a challenge.
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The professor has been fired and senior administrators removed from their post. No mention of this in the New York Times, The Free Press, The Atlantic or other outlets who drove the campus speech moral panic.
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A screenshot of the first page of the paper
Paper alert: in one or our latest apers, #AndrewWirzburger writes about #reviewbombing on the game #platform #Steam, arguing that review bombing serves as a political tool while being problematized by Steam as social misconduct. Read more at journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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