nilay patel

Editor-in-chief of The Verge, host of Decoder, cohost of The Vergecast. I am in love with spectacle.

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I don't know about Gemini but AI yes. In fact the papers are getting good enough to be a problem www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...

AI-generated research papers are overwhelming peer review | The Verge theverge.com
AI Weekly's analysis
  • AI-generated academic papers now regularly pass journal peer review, evading both human reviewers and automated AI-detection tools.
  • Scientists identify mandatory data-sharing and reproducibility checks as the only remaining procedural safeguards capable of catching AI-fabricated research.
  • The crisis extends beyond arXiv's hallucinated-citation problem to affect broad peer-reviewed publishing across multiple scientific disciplines.
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Wondering if Pope Leo reads @theverge.com “For an algorithm, an error is a flaw to be corrected; for a person, however, an error can be a catalyst for profound change.” echoes the “software brain” thesis from @reckless.bsky.social: www.theverge.com/podcast/9170...

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Stephan Geering @stephangeering.bsky.social

Fascinating @reckless.bsky.social interview with Recording Academy CEO Harvey Mason Jr* on how AI is changing music production and the music industry. To the despair of the YouTube commenters, Harvey Mason Jr is taking a thoughtful and nuanced approach to the use of AI. youtu.…

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