I wrote the below email, when invited to review a paper that was partially processed by ChatGPT. As I imagine the email could be useful inspiration for others, I decided to make it available. Feel free to adapt and reuse. No attribution needed, but if you find this post helpful and reuse/adapt the text for [...]
(one time Dutch post about value-driven AI, motivated in part by scientists' ideas for the upcoming elections in The Netherlands)
Cite as: van Rooij, I. (2025) AI slop and the destruction of knowledge. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.16905560 This week I was looking for info on what cognitive scientists mean when they speak of ‘domain-general’ cognition. I was curious, because the nuances are relevant for something I am researching at the moment. To my surprise and dismay, I hit upon [...]
Have you heard these claims? "Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) is imminent!" or "At current rate of progress, AGI is inevitable!" In a recent preprint, my co-authors and I explain why, and present a formal proof that, such claims are false and misleading. (...) the field of AI is in the grip of a dominant paradigm [...]
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