Oct 12, 2024 08:28 PM
https://youtu.be/EpQobaBCSYk
VIDEO EXCERPTS: Ok, you might say, but everyone knows that half of psychology is pseudoscience anyway. But how about this...
[...] There are frauds going on in photovoltaic research and in material science, too. A paper which just recently appeared on the arXiv identified more than 2000 cases in which electron microscope images were being faked. ... Because AI generated images become more and more common, scientific fraud is going to become so much worse next to this.
I always wonder why people do that. And I’m afraid the answer is cynicism. An increasing number of scientists think the system is unfair and good work is not a winning strategy. They think everyone cheats, and that justifies their own cheating. On top of that, there aren’t many penalties really. Papers will be retracted and people might be forced to prematurely retire, but then they can relax on their cozy pension... (MORE - details, video)
VIDEO EXCERPTS: Ok, you might say, but everyone knows that half of psychology is pseudoscience anyway. But how about this...
[...] There are frauds going on in photovoltaic research and in material science, too. A paper which just recently appeared on the arXiv identified more than 2000 cases in which electron microscope images were being faked. ... Because AI generated images become more and more common, scientific fraud is going to become so much worse next to this.
I always wonder why people do that. And I’m afraid the answer is cynicism. An increasing number of scientists think the system is unfair and good work is not a winning strategy. They think everyone cheats, and that justifies their own cheating. On top of that, there aren’t many penalties really. Papers will be retracted and people might be forced to prematurely retire, but then they can relax on their cozy pension... (MORE - details, video)