Marking student project reports. On checking the references I found many are made up, presumably by AI. When I query AI about them it gives a fake summary of the made up references. 🤯

Royal Society prize winner returns award in protest over Elon Musk Andrea Sella is latest scientist to express dismay over UK science academy’s refusal to criticise tech billionaire

My friend Prof Andrea Sella, returns his Faraday Medal to Royal Society in disgust about the lack of action about Elon Musk - on.ft.com/4kDYwbS via @FT

Had the pleasure of watching "Insane Asylum Seekers" in Bush Theatre.
Great performance and such a packed narrative about being British-Iraqi. I was between tears and laughter the whole way through. ❤️😭
www.bushtheatre.co.uk/event/insane...

I was in the mood to explore the scope and vibe of different journals so I got DeepSeek to summarise and more importantly, to throw some shade on them - rather amusing! 🤭😝

Though I shan't divulge which journals and what shade 🙊

And yes, the same might be used to write articles but we can much more easily and rapidly review and reproduce a study (in my field). Reviews are so long - would referees be able to catch the overly positive and not sufficiently critical writings of an LLM? Gosh, I hope so. 🧐

LLMs regurgitate an overly positive account of *everything working wonderfully* which unscrupulous parties may use to turbo write a review, thus transforming tentative statements into 📢LOUD CLAIMS📢

Each paper typically ends with a few tentative implications that we already know err on being positive. We might take these with a small pinch of salt and deduce caveats on a critical reading of the methods and results. The LLM is of course not doing any of that, AND then...

Reading review papers, I am becoming more concerned that with large language models, review papers might be especially easy to generate and they would contribute a whole lot more noise in the scientific literature 😶‍🌫️ Consider this:

Save The Prince Charles Cinema The future of the iconic Prince Charles Cinema in London’s West End is under serious threat! We are beyond disappointed that our landlords, Zedwell LSQ Ltd and their ultimate parent company Criterion...

you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/sa...