Humans are investing very little in themselves to stay human - as thinking is outsourced to AI.
by Shanthi Sivasubramaniam
• 3 months, 3 weeks ago
A Georgia State University professor was grading student work when he noticed something disturbing. The fake citations weren't just in student papers.
They were in published research.
Real journals. Real academics' names. Completely fabricated sources.
Here's how the contamination spreads:
𝗦𝘁𝗲𝗽 𝟭: ChatGPT invents a citation.
Fake journal.
Fake article.
Real-sounding author name.
𝗦𝘁𝗲𝗽 𝟮: A sloppy paper includes it without verification.
𝗦𝘁𝗲𝗽 𝟯: That paper gets published and cited by others.
𝗦𝘁𝗲𝗽 𝟰: The fake citation now appears in multiple "legitimate" sources.
𝗦𝘁𝗲𝗽 𝟱: Future researchers and LLMs treat it as verified.
The brutal …
by Shanthi Sivasubramaniam
• 5 months, 2 weeks ago
I created a simple carousel using Gamma and it literally took less than a minute.
I take absolutely no credit for this other than the title and the link at the end.
The rest is all Gamma.
by Shanthi Sivasubramaniam
• 6 months, 1 week ago