ChatGPT, Perplexity, Ai2 ScholarQA and other AI tools cite retracted scientific papers without any warning. Read my report for @technologyreview.com

www.technologyreview.com/2025/09/23/1...

Researchers argue over whether ‘novel’ AI-generated works use others’ ideas without credit.
By Ananya | @nature.com
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Researchers are developing AI tools to generate novel research ideas and papers. But, there's a concern that these tools might just be reusing existing ideas without credit. I dug into the debate for @nature.com
www.nature.com/articles/d41...

For @nature.com, I write about the book Amphibious Anthropologies, which explores what it means to live in wet environments — where the boundaries between land and water are constantly redrawn — all over the world.
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Indian researchers suspect they were passed over for major awards after criticizing government policies. New by me for
Science Magazine

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Today's tests cannot provide any meaningful assessment of AI's ability to reason or understand, and yet there are so many claims that AI systems have humanlike cognitive abilities. I report on the current state of evaluation practices for @sciencenews.bsky.social
www.sciencenews.org/article/ai-u...

Researchers found that OpenAI's speech recognition model, Whisper, fabricated about 1.4% of the audio transcriptions tested, about 40% of which were harmful or concerning in some way. It's hard to spot them without listening to the audio again.
My report for Science: www.science.org/content/arti...

LLM-based multilingual chatbots are becoming common nowadays. But these chatbots might not be the best at answering your healthcare queries, especially if you ask in Hindi, Mandarin and Spanish. My latest for
@sciam.bsky.social exploring the problems.
www.scientificamerican.com/article/chat...

For Nature, I spoke to researchers about tracing sources of bias in image-generating AI, and if they can be fixed.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...

With inputs from @abeba.bsky.social, @rajiinio.bsky.social, Pratyusha Ria Kalluri, Kathleen Fraser and Will Orr.

For Al Jazeera, I report on how things keep getting worse for India's Urban Company workers and trainees.
www.aljazeera.com/economy/2024...

Recently, many generative AI tools have been released for public use and more and more companies are looking to integrate these tools into their workflows. What makes them popular and what are the concerns? I talked to
@melaniemitchell.bsky.social to know more. sciencenews.org/article/gene...

Free, accessible and well-stocked public libraries are hard to find in India. For @techreview.bsky.social, I write about an effort to digitize books in various Indian languages. technologyreview.com/2023/10/25/1...

Algorithms are increasingly being used to make various decisions about our lives, decisions that are often invisible to us. Can we trust those decisions? For Scientific American, I write about how algorithms can go wrong.

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Seemingly trivial differences in training data can skew the judgments of AI programs—and that’s not the only problem with automated decision-making, by @punarpuli.bsky.social