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Big claims require and all, but he's an Asst. Prof at CMU, so not the usual suspect for AIP - and presumably there's pudding on the way given the description of this "Open Source Week" thingy. Will be interesting to see what comes out...

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We've seen many reputable people experience AI psychosis in public (and I can only imagine the number of instances in private). I don't know exactly what combination of factors leads to it, but I don't think being intelligent or educated or being an asst. professor at CMU grants immunity.

Employees at AI companies have fallen prey to it. The world's most famous biologist fell prey to it. Many people involved in tech have fallen prey to it. Check the "new" page here to see many examples in progress.

'psychosis' might be a strong word, but definitely written or at least heavily edited by an LLM. I would guess Claude's writing style.

It's human writing, lots of typos. But, the grandiose claims of revolutionary discoveries without evidence raises questions. Might be true, and if so, it's big. But...

It's human-modified AI slop. No human is able to write so much so badly

Slop gets produced at just about every level. A week ago: some promotor of a product looking for funding did the 'Claude write me a rebuttal' thing to some stuff that was off-center and it made them look really silly. This wasn't exactly a small op either and yet, apparently the higher ups at these places are just fine being represented like that. I'm surprised that CMU doesn't have a policy on this (and if they do that it isn't followed).

That said, this article could have been a lot worse, so I guess thanks for that...

more recently, I've (allegedly) seen a arxiv preprint by a proper tenure track professor that was suspiciously AI slop (and incorrect nonetheless!)

I feel like I'm losing it

And yet this linked page is filled with AI slop tells, annoyingly, so it makes it hard to separate the wheat from the chaff in terms of useful information.

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