if Wikipedia, an org with a shoestring budget and volunteer workforce can ban use of llms, what excuse do large orgs and universities have

For real

Ecologists! I have received four sets of paper reviews back in the last month, and two had obviously AI generated reviews: @plos.org and @journalofecology.bsky.social. We also have reviews from @journalofecology.bsky.social that I strongly suspect were AI. Our peers are intellectually lazy.

I actually got a second set of AI generated reviews on a different manuscript today from @journalofecology.bsky.social , so I will absolutely be reaching out

If you are going to use AI to "help" you review, engage your brain and evaluate what the AI is flagging! It can't reason, and it is going to flag the things a 1st year grad might. Also, "internally inconsistent", immediate 🚩for AI use. Looking at you @journalofecology.bsky.social Reviewer 1.

Which is how you end up with a review that says that "the track changes version has insertion artifacts" and the paragraph "has not been rebuilt end-to-end".

I totally agree. Reviewing a manuscript also requires contextualization, which AI is also bad at. I think because this was @plos the reviewer felt like they could just drop the file into AI, focus on methods, copy and paste, and be done.

Sure, I think there is room for a measured approach in AI. Some of what you say, such as "learning new syntax nigh unnecessary" is, to me, alarming from a long term expertise standpoint. But also, review of scientific manuscripts is more than a technical exercise. Or at least, it should be.

You are definitely an outlier compared to what the literature reports on efficiency gains from AI use!

I am really pissed and going to contest it. It is so obviously AI, and the editor 1) accepted it and 2) rejected the paper even though the review is nonsense! Some of the critiques are that there are "obvious insertion artifacts" in the track changes version...Duh?

Welp, just got an obviously AI-generated review back from @plos.org. Love that there was no disclosure and a students manuscript has been fed to the machine.

Oh NSF, for having the "best merit review system" you sure have problems with consistency!

We have two maniacs but Midge the border is the real killer. These three have really held up well!

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Oh, I have some Amazon US recommendations for you! We have a few squeaky toys that have lasted months!! Months!

Boxing up the NSF at Eisenhower Av for the forced relocation. Boxes have “Details Matter” signage.

NSF

- Forced reorg

- POs down ~ 40% (DRP, most rotators not renewed, retirements)

- Forced move (and we have to pack and clean) to a building with no furniture, little to no conference space for panels, inadequate 🛜, …)

I personally love the boxes they gave us for packing.
“Details matter” 🙃

18-29 year olds: bless your heart, you were duped so badly. From +5 to -51 (!!!)

Just in case you ever forget that #rejectionistherule this was the ranking on a grant declined yesterday by the NSF.

They aren't screening for testicular cancer by squishing balls, though they could! Wonder why that might be?

I was literally just thinking about this. You know how they could, but don't screen for testicular cancer? Wonder why? Your modern doctor doesn't mean to cause pain, but our technology is a legacy of ignoring women's pain and discomfort. AND mammograms are inaccurate and lead to painful biopsies

People Are Being Involuntarily Committed, Jailed After Spiraling Into "ChatGPT Psychosis" People experiencing "ChatGPT psychosis" are being involuntarily committed to mental hospitals and jailed following AI mental health crises.

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It's good to know that this happens at places like Uchicago as well as UA. Last year we had a big whoopsiedoodle miscalculation of 250 million that led to a shortfall of 170 million. The incompetence is absolutely staggering. Insult to injury, a huge contributor was spending on sports.

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If not, pass the word!

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But does offloading these relatively easy tasks (that some might argue help you think more deeply about what you are doing) outweigh emissions/data center costs/human toll?

Cutting until you hit something vital is the capitalist way.

Who is this article kidding? Error prone, probabilistic, hallucinating AI is coming for my University job!

So many ecological processes are highly tied to VPD. Here, Atmospheric aridity strongly influences fire behavior.

#terriertuesday #outoffocus Midge says "smile!"

The Percentage of Tasks AI Agents Are Currently Failing At May Spell Trouble for the Industry The best AI Agents are currently failing about 70 percent of the tasks assigned to them, as investments are expected to drop off a cliff.

The percentage of tasks AI "agents" are currently failing at may spell trouble for the industry... futurism.com/ai-agents-fa...

Springer Nature book on machine learning is full of made-up citations Would you pay $169 for an introductory ebook on machine learning with citations that appear to be made up? If not, you might want to pass on purchasing Mastering Machine Learning: From Basics to Ad…

You can't make this stuff up folks:
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Check out it's black-bellied cousin, the Kaibab squirrel!