Annette Vee
@anetv.bsky.social
Assoc Prof of English at Pitt, writes on computation and writing, teaching, tech. https://annettevee.substack.com/ https://www.english.pitt.edu/people/annette-vee
Ben Shindel's rigorous and amazing post breaking down the problems of the materials science AI paper. thebsdetector.substack.com/p/ai-materia...
AI, Materials, and Fraud, Oh My!
The red flags we should have seen earlier for a too-good-to-be-true paper on AI tool adoption at a materials research firm
thebsdetector.substack.com
May 17, 2025 at 1:14 PM
Ben Shindel's rigorous and amazing post breaking down the problems of the materials science AI paper. thebsdetector.substack.com/p/ai-materia...
My post, "Expect AI research to be messy" open.substack.com/pub/annettev...
Expect AI research to be messy
On a recent fraud in AI research
open.substack.com
May 17, 2025 at 1:12 PM
My post, "Expect AI research to be messy" open.substack.com/pub/annettev...
thank you, Mark! That's high praise. And, indeed, that's exactly what I was trying to do: understand the complexity through data. The stories are compelling, but each one represents only one data point.
May 14, 2025 at 12:02 PM
thank you, Mark! That's high praise. And, indeed, that's exactly what I was trying to do: understand the complexity through data. The stories are compelling, but each one represents only one data point.
Is this potentially correlation or causation? In other words, does smoking help to disinfect hands? Or did people believe it did? Or not care?
May 12, 2025 at 7:07 PM
Is this potentially correlation or causation? In other words, does smoking help to disinfect hands? Or did people believe it did? Or not care?
thanks for sharing, Paul!
May 12, 2025 at 6:58 PM
thanks for sharing, Paul!
haaaaaa that's a great senior prank!
April 30, 2025 at 4:06 PM
haaaaaa that's a great senior prank!
It's not possible to dismiss AI in that way if you talk to businesses adopting it, workplace writers integrating it into their workflows (sometimes surreptitiously), or read any of the wave of studies showing widespread adoption. People may have mixed feelings about it, but they're using it.
March 27, 2025 at 1:46 PM
It's not possible to dismiss AI in that way if you talk to businesses adopting it, workplace writers integrating it into their workflows (sometimes surreptitiously), or read any of the wave of studies showing widespread adoption. People may have mixed feelings about it, but they're using it.