Shahan Ali Memon

Relying on ChatGPT to teach you about a topic leaves you with shallower knowledge than Googling and reading about it, according to new research that compared what more than 10,000 people knew after using one method or the other.

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I think this may be an opportunity for google to finally create a pathway to monetize scholar?

I tried it, and so far really nice in terms of lit review. 🔥

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The Risks of Industry Influence in Tech Research Emerging information technologies like social media, search engines, and AI can have a broad impact on public health, political institutions, social dynamics, and the natural world. It is critical to ...

I did a small test on the assertions made in my advisor’s new paper on industry influence in tech research (arxiv.org/abs/2510.19894 ; great read btw), and what paper they cited for those assertions/claims. And check if scholar labs was able to find those papers given the claim.

That said, specificity of the claim matters I think. The more specific the claim (i.e. less choices to search from), the better.

For example, for the query: “Is there a paper that claims systematic reviews funded by the soda industry are more likely to find no clear link between sugar and obesity?” It was able to find the paper cited in the above paper for that context (see doc).

Scholar Labs Test Paper: THE RISKS OF INDUSTRY INFLUENCE IN TECH RESEARCH (https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.19894) 1. Assertion regarding automotive industry history Exact Phrase: "automotive manufacturers have resisted sa...

And it did find the correct paper (in its top 10 suggestions) in 3/5 tests (small test set I know, but I ran out of credits/day 🤷‍♂️: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

The Risks of Industry Influence in Tech Research Emerging information technologies like social media, search engines, and AI can have a broad impact on public health, political institutions, social dynamics, and the natural world. It is critical to ...

I did a small test on the assertions made in my advisor’s new paper on industry influence in tech research (arxiv.org/abs/2510.19894 ; great read btw), and what paper they cited for those assertions/claims. And check if scholar labs was able to find those papers given the claim.

I think this may be an opportunity for google to finally create a pathway to monetize scholar?

I tried it, and so far really nice in terms of lit review. 🔥

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Fascinating.

This study show that using poems to jailbreak LLMs is... super effective? What the heck.

This is a great set of advice that would benefit researchers in any discipline, not just ML.

It was great; I just watched it. And great website too!

This is a great set of advice that would benefit researchers in any discipline, not just ML.

Discourse surrounding “AI” these days often feels like a guy showing you his shovel and you say, “that’s a nice shovel” and he says “I am going to perform surgery on my mother with this shovel” and you say “Oh God please don’t that is not what a shovel is for.”

Great analogy. In case you haven’t already seen this

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Oh tragic irony: online research made LLMs possible, LLMs kill online research

Would love to read :)

This.

Much of the "AI Scientist" community focuses on an instrumentalist rather taylorist approach to science. What about the goal of "knowing" and "understanding" the world?

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#ScienceOfAIMediatedScience #ScAISci #AI4Science

“institutions reward publication volume and citation metrics above everything else”

“Papermills are merely the black-market version of the same sickness: a culture that rewards
output, not validity;
novelty, not truth;
publication, not knowledge.”

I actually haven't used character AI; but I won't be surprised either way.

Interesting observation..I wonder if someone has studied say character AI bots for stereotypes and biased associations.

Sharing a related thread on this..

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Fully agree with you..and to clarify, I wasn’t arguing that we lack agency. Only that we are having to debate these questions reactively because someone has already prototyped worlds nobody really asked for. But that’s the reality of any tech rn. And all the more reason to question it.

Three schematic diagrams. The first illustrates selective publishing of internal resection, the second selective causal focus, and the third selective access and funding for researchers.

1. We ( @jbakcoleman.bsky.social, @cailinmeister.bsky.social, @jevinwest.bsky.social, and I) have a new preprint up on the arXiv.

There we explore how social media companies and other online information technology firms are able to manipulate scientific research about the effects of their products.

Wow

Wrote about a relevant topic here:

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and an AI grandma..

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And here comes the AI god..

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Debating "should this exist?" was simply a retrospective exercise.

The ethics of it all is all just a commentary on an operational landscape that's already here. We are simply educating ourselves.

What a bizarre world.

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