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[–] blakestacey@awful.systems 10 points 2 months ago

Image description: tweet from the official Nobel Prize account. Text reads,

Congratulations to our 2024 medicine laureate Victor Ambros ✨

This morning he celebrated the news of his prize with his colleague and wife Rosalind Lee, who was also the first author on the 1993 'Cell' paper cited by the Nobel Committee.

#NobelPrize

Blake reaction description: sighing and muttering, "yep, assholes will asshole"

[–] blakestacey@awful.systems 11 points 2 months ago

That sounds about right, yeah.

[–] blakestacey@awful.systems 12 points 2 months ago

Getting a head start on that Nobel disease.

[–] blakestacey@awful.systems 14 points 2 months ago (6 children)

They're reeeaallly leaning into the fact that some of the math involved is also used in statistical physics. And, OK, we could have an academic debate about how the boundaries of fields are drawn and the extent to which the divisions between them are cultural conventions. But the more important thing is that the Nobel Prize is a bad institution.

[–] blakestacey@awful.systems 14 points 2 months ago

I trained a neural network on all the ways I've said that I hate these people, and it screamed in eldritch spectra before collapsing into silence.

[–] blakestacey@awful.systems 5 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I haven't had to report malfeasance like that, but if that happened to me, I would be livid. I'd start by contacting the program officer; I'd also contact the division director above them and the NSF Office of Inspector General. I mean, that level of laziness can't just have affected one review! And, for good measure, I'd send a tip to 404media, as they have covered this sort of thing. That might well go nowhere, but it can't hurt to be in their contact list.

[–] blakestacey@awful.systems 5 points 2 months ago

I need an early-2000's style web video where a cutout of that Musk picture moves up and down to a sproingy-sproingy sound.

[–] blakestacey@awful.systems 4 points 2 months ago

Scopus is just a citation database. So, yeah, about as "AI" as Excel.

[–] blakestacey@awful.systems 9 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I researched cool topics using ChatGPT, Claude, Google

That's not what research means, you embossed carbuncle.

I linked NotebookLM to the Wikipedia entry of each topic and generated the podcast audio

It's fucking James Somerton with extra steps!

[–] blakestacey@awful.systems 14 points 2 months ago

I tried it with a bunch of stuff already and shared with friends.

I hope your friends find a better friend.

[–] blakestacey@awful.systems 18 points 2 months ago (7 children)

Found while poking around today: the Wikipedia club for cleaning up after AI.

Example: the article Leninist historiography was entirely written by AI and previously included a list of completely fake sources in Russian and Hungarian at the bottom of the page.

[–] blakestacey@awful.systems 7 points 2 months ago

"My name is Scroder Cher. I take care of the place while the Master is away."

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