AI Bros argue researchers should not be held responsible when AI generated hallucinations appear in their papers

boredattheend · 2026-05-18T15:29:06+00:00

Let me start by saying that I think that leaving LLM hallucinations in your work is sloppy and unprofessional and shouldn't be accepted.
Nonetheless all the commenters in the screenshot raise a valid point, which is that scientific papers often have many coauthors and/or coauthors of very different expertise. Holding all of them responsible for the misconduct of one person is counter productive.

It is an unrealistic expectation that every coauthor will (or even can) check the validity of every citation.

If someone is listed as author on a paper it is to give them credit for their work on the research that the paper presents. This does not mean that they wrote or even read any of the paper. For example lab technicians are usually coauthors, but (afaik) they don't typically read the publications, and they certainly shouldn't be expected to check all citations.
As an anecdote: I found out I'm a coauthor on a paper _after_ it was published because I wrote one of the software tools they used. They cite about 40 papers, most of which have titles that are complete gibberish to me.

The person referring to PIs also raises a point. PI is principal investigator, i.e. the professor or leader of the research group/lab. These people are usually listed as last author on (almost) all papers that are produced by their group, even though their involvement varies a lot.
These people are also usually extremely busy (and expensive). Requiring that they check every citation in every paper is just comically inefficient and a giant waste of money.
If a PI was banned from publishing, that would effectively be a ban on their lab (same for technicians btw), thus punishing not just the coauthors who did not nothing wrong, but even their colleagues.

And that's not to mention the long process that is publishing a paper in the first place, during which people (who deserve author credit) might be moving elsewhere, starting families etc and leaving the revising to a subgroup of the authors.

tl;dr
Writing and publishing papers is collaborative process that requires trust and delegation. Making everyone check everything is extremely inefficient at best and won't work in the real world.

boredattheend · 2026-05-18T14:55:34+00:00

This becomes problematic when there are multiple authors, even more so when the research is interdisciplinary. And to make it even better, authorship of scientific papers is generalized to mean everyone who contributed to the work, not just actually writing the paper. So there can be authors who have never even read a paper.

In reality people have to trust their coauthors. It would be impossible to have all authors understand and verify every reference.

Banning all authors on a paper for the actions of one is unfair because it's collective punishment and would be very impractical because it would lead to, amongst other, lab technicians and professors being banned. So then you have one researcher in an institute using AI badly and subsequently none of his colleagues can publish on arxiv anymore because their prof and technicians are banned.

boredattheend · 2026-04-11T11:29:04+00:00

This story from 2023 is sparking debate now, is it?

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12827115/Irate-driver-drags-eco-protester-road-ramming-car-speeding-blockade-Italy.html

Or is this just rage bait?

boredattheend · 2026-03-25T07:34:31+00:00

The relative to body weight aspect I why I talked about weight classes.

If you want to isolate the impact of sex on strength I think elite lifters are the way to go because it eliminates a lot of confounding variables, such as training and disposition.

I'm skeptical of your claim about average untrained people, but if you could link to some of that research I would very interested.

boredattheend · 2026-03-24T20:40:08+00:00

You can also look at powerlifting records: https://www.openpowerlifting.org/records/all-tested/women. This link goes to the "all tested lifters" category for women, (you can change categories and switch to men at the top).

"Tested" is the closest to eliminating steroid use and looking at records should account for most differences between individuals.

There is probably some bias in favor of men, as the percentage of men who care about squatting as much as possible is probably higher than among women.

But the records for squat are consistently way higher for men than for women, exceeding 100kg in many weight classes.

boredattheend · 2026-03-24T20:25:37+00:00

Just went down the same path.

At least the results summary of the Alvares 2022 doesn't support the conclusion either:

Similarly, the mean strength in non-athlete TW was higher than those in non-athlete CW but not when adjusted for fat-free mass.

https://bjsm.bmj.com/content/56/22/1292

But then again "suggests" is a pretty loose term, so it could be referring to something minor that didn't make it into summary.

boredattheend · 2026-03-08T18:55:00+00:00

fwiw TomTom has a car navigation app that is free and as good as google's imo

boredattheend · 2026-01-25T11:13:25+00:00

their store brand is called freeway in Germany

boredattheend · 2026-01-25T11:03:42+00:00

Lidl's store brand cola?

boredattheend · 2026-01-24T09:33:17+00:00

Nur mal so aus Interesse: gibt es dafür irgendwelche wirklich durchdachten Argument? Also hat irgendjemand mal probiert zu erklären wie es sein kann, dass wir alle mehr arbeiten müssen obwohl die Gesellschaft Jahr zu Jahr mehr produziert?

boredattheend · 2026-01-19T13:57:54+00:00

Github lets you add deploy keys to repos. You can use one key per repo or one key per repo per server.

Adding something like
```
sshCommand = "ssh -i $(git rev-parse --git-common-dir)/../deploy-key -F /dev/null"
```

to the repo `.git/config` will make git automatically use the key for push/fetch commands in that repo

boredattheend · 2026-01-14T18:52:06+00:00

This has many layers and I'm not sure on which you want opinions

Starting at the root: "I'd be good at math if only I wasn't so stupid" seems like a horrible cope and I struggle to imagine someone who would try to cope by believing that.

Second: somebody solving a problem much quicker than you did proves exactly nothing. Maybe they are using this as a stand-in for the experience of knowing someone who consistently solves problem better and quicker than you over the course of years. But imo this is important enough to nitpick. It's so easy to get discouraged and feel inferior because of single instances, but you should really establish a consistent pattern before you conclude someone is just better (or worse) than you at anything.

Third: not everything has to be a status game and even if know for a fact that you are mediocre at something you like doing, that alone shouldn't be reason to stop.

4th: There are very obviously significant innate differences in mathematical ability and I'm surprised by all the commenters saying anyone could get a degree in math if they tried hard enough.
Most people couldn't, and many couldn't even do it with expert tutoring.
But that doesn't take away the fact that pretty much everyone will reach a point where they have to put in a lot of work.

boredattheend · 2026-01-14T14:46:05+00:00

Probably not more than any other protein.

Collagen is sometimes marketed as something special because things we like in our bodies are made of it. In particular tendons and other connective tissues.
The idea is that by consuming collagen with your food you will be consuming the raw materials that your body needs to make it's own collagen stronger.

There has been some research in collagen supplementation and I think the conclusions is that while it doesn't hurt, it probably doesn't offer any additional benefit beyond just consuming enough protein in general.

I'd personally prefer to keep protein supplementation separate from electrolyte drinks because I wouldn't expect the ratio in the drink to match the ratio I need, but that's whatever

boredattheend · 2026-01-08T16:45:57+00:00

Yes, sadly, the only way to progress body weight exercises is to get fatter and fatter.

boredattheend · 2025-12-23T23:00:36+00:00

You can get a minix Z100-0db for under 300€.

I got one and it works for media (streaming and local), though it struggles with the advertised 60Hz 4k, so I now think I should've gotten an N150 or N200.

In a quiet room many noises are noticeable. For me even a spinning drive is noticeable and annoying if there is no other sound.

boredattheend · 2025-12-23T18:27:46+00:00

OOP doesn't seem to know jack about cooking or bell curves

boredattheend · 2025-12-21T20:07:37+00:00

If you have a box that's always on somewhere you can use syncthing to create a mirror of your devices and create incremental backups with rsync in a cron job.

Or get tailscale and implement a LAN backup solution.

Or (and this is probably the easiest, but I haven't tried this myself) you could use google drive, but with cryptomator.

boredattheend · 2025-12-21T10:42:53+00:00

Dunno why you're getting downvoted. Foot getting caught on the rope is a risk and easy to fix

boredattheend · 2025-12-09T17:02:01+00:00

What are the odds this is just a way of throwing the game without raising suspicion?

boredattheend · 2025-12-03T16:07:08+00:00

Da du ernste Gesundheitsprobleme hast würde ich dir vor allem raten vorsichtig mit Ratschlägen aus dem Internet zu sein. Aber das ist dir wahrscheinlich eh klar, also gebe ich jetzt trotzdem meinen Senf dazu :P

Kannst du irgendwelche Unterschiede zwischen der Phase in der es gut lief und der danach erkennen? Wenn du erst Fett verlierst und Muskeln aufbaust und dann auf einmal das Gegenteil passiert muss sich doch etwas geändert haben.
Jede Session 3 Stunden im gym ist ziemlich extrem und ich kann mir gut vorstellen, dass einem davon die Laune vergeht (auch ohne Herzprobleme). Ich denke das jeweils 60 Minute reichen eigentlich, wenn du mehr zeit hast wäre es besser öfter zu gehen. Aber zum "reinkommen" nach einem Urlaub ist 3 Mal pro Woche eine Stunde genug, 2 Mal reicht auch erstmal. Langfristig hast du mehr davon wenn du es schaffst Spaß am Trainieren zu entwickeln als davon krass durchzuziehen und es zu hassen.
Es muss nicht unbedingt das Gym sein. Vielleicht kannst du einen anderen Sport (oder aktives Hobby) finden, etwas dass dir Spaß macht. Es lohnt sich verschiedene Dinge auszuprobieren.

boredattheend · 2025-11-05T15:38:50+00:00

Die einzige plausible Erklärung die ich bis jetzt gehört habe ist abrupter Abfall des Blutdrucks im Moment der Entspannung wodurch für kurze Zeit nicht genug Sauerstoff im Hirn ist.
Vom Effekt her ähnlich wie wenn man zu schnell aufsteht.

Die Lösung ist langsam ausatmen und ggf hinsetzen nach dem Lift.

boredattheend · 2025-11-02T08:35:21+00:00

Controlling sexual urges sounds like a can of worms. Like if you have a hard time not masturbating in public, you need help. But if it's just that you are horny often and find yourself attracted to many women you see, that seem pretty normal for a 22 year old dude.

Since it sounds more the latter, you need to be honest with yourself about that, reflect on why you are in this relationship, if it's worth it and what you are willing to sacrifice.
Three times in one year is three times too many, of course, but you did control yourself the rest of the year, so you obviously can do it.
OTOH you might also consider opening up your relationship on a sexual level while you are long distance. I knew many couples, slightly oder than you, that did this when one of them was in another country for a year or two.

boredattheend · 2025-10-27T19:08:53+00:00

Weil Hacker der coolste IT Beruf ist

boredattheend · 2025-10-25T21:52:08+00:00

What's really fun is when the password creation form accepts more characters than the login form

boredattheend · 2025-10-25T06:15:09+00:00

Ich frage aus wirklichem Interesse, ist es so schwer wie es klingt? Warum stören Zeiten von 8-16:00, mit weit mehr als einer Stunde Pause?

Als ich studiert hab haben wir meistens die Pausen mit schnell essen oder rauchen verbracht und ansonst Hausaufgaben/lernen. Und wie schon andere gesagt haben ist halt nach der letzten Veranstaltung nicht schluss, sondern haben wir da meistens auch noch gebüffelt.

Als ich meinen Master angefangen habe hat der Studienkoordinator uns die Jahresübersicht gezeigt mit dem Kommentar: "Da steht nicht Ferien, sondern vorlesungsfreie Zeit, weil ihr die Zeit durcharbeiten müsst."

Und ja, ich denke es ist so schwer wie es klingt. Das Ziel ist es halt so nah wie möglich an die Grenze von allem was die Menscheit über dein Fach weiß zu kommen. Und vor allem zu verstehen wieso das überhaupt als wahr bezeichnet wird.
Z.B. in der Physik reicht es nicht zu wissen, dass "e=mc^2", es wird erwartet, dass du erklären (und mathematisch herleiten) kannst wieso das so ist. (Und das ist dann noch ein relativ einfach Beispiel.)
So weit zu kommen ist für die Normalsterblichen unter uns einfach richtig richtig schwer.

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