By Dr. Rachel Simmons, Postdoctoral Fellow, Stanford University
  • NephewAlphaBravo [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    5 days ago

    pretty good bit but it’s honestly why i refuse to touch this shit, i already went through noticing my memory get worse after search engines became ubiquitous and i’m not about to do that to my thinking too

  • Damarcusart [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    5 days ago

    Let me be clear about something: I am an excellent scientist. My publication record speaks for itself. I have first-author papers in high-impact journals. I have secured independent funding. I have mentored students. I have done all of the things that one is supposed to do to earn a tenure-track position. And I have done approximately 85% of them by typing prompts into a large language model and then moderately editing the output.

    This is not a secret. This is how science works now.

    he-laughed doomer yea

  • FALGSConaut [comrade/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    5 days ago

    My own words? I haven’t used my own words since 2022. I’m not even sure I have my own words anymore. When I try to think without a prompt box in front of me, my mind returns only a vague sense of fog and the faint echo of a cursor blinking. My thoughts are not organized into paragraphs. They do not have topic sentences. They are just fragments. Impressions. My job is just… prompt.

    Let me be clear about something: I am an excellent scientist. My publication record speaks for itself. I have first-author papers in high-impact journals. I have secured independent funding. I have mentored students. I have done all of the things that one is supposed to do to earn a tenure-track position. And I have done approximately 85% of them by typing prompts into a large language model and then moderately editing the output.

    I’m fucking dying, this is the kind of person that’s being interviewed by Yale? And they wrote (well some ai did anyway) this article to complain? Like it doesn’t make them look fatally incompetent?

    Edit: I cannot tell if the ending blurb is supposed to be a cheeky joke written by her or a devastating burn written by some editor

    Dr. Rachel Simmons is a postdoctoral fellow at Stanford University, where her research focuses on something to do with gene regulation that she could explain in detail if you would just let her open her laptop for thirty seconds.