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<blockquote style="position: relative; padding-left: 55px;"><section><a href="https://mstdn.social/users/rebeccawatson/statuses/115067364819721458">Rebecca Watson (rebeccawatson@mstdn.social)'s status on Friday, 22-Aug-2025 04:47:46 JST</a><a href="https://mstdn.social/@rebeccawatson" title="rebeccawatson@mstdn.social"><img src="https://gnusocial.jp/avatar/85744-48-20230106233358.webp" width="48" height="48" alt="Rebecca Watson" style="position: absolute; left: 0; top: 0;">Rebecca Watson</a></section><article><p>I've covered several cases of scientific fraud, but this might be the craziest: a 2nd year MIT doctoral student got glowing press in WaPo, NPR, and more for a preprint he made up out of whole cloth<br><a href="https://skepchick.org/2025/08/did-this-kid-use-ai-to-fake-research-about-how-great-ai-is/" rel="nofollow">https://skepchick.org/2025/08/did-this-kid-use-ai-to-fake-research-about-how-great-ai-is/</a></p></article><footer><a rel="bookmark" href="https://gnusocial.jp/conversation/5524207#notice-10846626">In conversation</a><time datetime="2025-08-22T04:47:46+09:00" title="Friday, 22-Aug-2025 04:47:46 JST">about 7 months ago</time> <span>from <span><a href="https://mstdn.social/@rebeccawatson/115067364819721458" rel="external" title="Sent from mstdn.social via ActivityPub">mstdn.social</a></span></span><a href="https://mstdn.social/@rebeccawatson/115067364819721458">permalink</a><h4>Attachments</h4><ol><li><article><header><div>Domain not in remote thumbnail source whitelist: skepchick.org</div><h5><a href="https://skepchick.org/2025/08/did-this-kid-use-ai-to-fake-research-about-how-great-ai-is/">Did this Kid Use AI to Fake Research About How Great AI Is?</a></h5><div> from <span>Rebecca Watson</span></div></header><div>Transcript: Last month, I talked about an MIT preprint published on arXiv about AI. It’s a little early for an update on that, but there is some interesting news about another MIT preprint publishe…</div><footer></footer></article></li></ol></footer></blockquote>

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Rebecca Watson (rebeccawatson@mstdn.social)'s status on Friday, 22-Aug-2025 04:47:46 JST Rebecca Watson
I've covered several cases of scientific fraud, but this might be the craziest: a 2nd year MIT doctoral student got glowing press in WaPo, NPR, and more for a preprint he made up out of whole cloth
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