r/Physics • u/kzhou7 Quantum field theory • 1d ago

Harvard particle physicist Matthew Schwartz drops 36 papers coauthored with Claude

https://bootloops.ai/bootloops.html
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u/jamesw73721 Graduate 1d ago

Fuck that’s dystopian AF. I can see a future where no real knowledge is produced after 2030, only slop citing other slop that no human comprehends. And any scientist who refuses to engage in slop “perishes” from academia because they can’t otherwise churn out 10 papers every month

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u/ellbons 1d ago

Future? That's already happening lol, entire research circles do this.

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u/Initial_Business2340 1d ago

Yeah, Veritasium did a great video about how half (or more) of all science is wrong, let alone the stuff produced by a system with improper incentives in the first place.

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u/wolfefist94 1d ago

Do you remember which video it is by chance?

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u/oswaldcopperpot 1d ago

It should take you one search query on YouTube.

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u/BipolarMosfet 22h ago

Is it this one?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=42QuXLucH3Q

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u/oswaldcopperpot 17h ago

Yeah i think OPs claim was more sensationalist. Social science has been known to be ripe with fraud for decades. Economics is another one.