Meet the academics refusing to use generative AI

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-00508-w

87 points · 8 comments · view on lemmy.world

8 Comments

BloodMuffin@lemmy.ca · 20 pts · 114d (7 replies)
[ removed ]
TheJesusaurus@piefed.ca · 9 pts · 114d (6 replies)

Presumably the larger difficulty would be finding people who are pro genAI

red_tomato@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 113d

I got plenty of gen AI advocates at work.

BloodMuffin@lemmy.ca · 4 pts · 114d (4 replies)
[ removed ]
TheJesusaurus@piefed.ca · 8 pts · 113d (2 replies)

Ok, millions of people use heroine every day

late_list@piefed.zip · 7 pts · 113d (1 reply)

Okay but fortune 500 CEOs aren't exactly telling all their employees they need to start using heroin or they'll be left in the dust when the next industrial revolution happens though.

CapuccinoCoretto@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 113d

Of course not, silly. Heroine sells itself.

eleijeep@piefed.social · 2 pts · 113d

and billions don’t

13readie@piefed.social · 3 pts · 112d

Hugh Possingham, a mathematician and conservation scientist at the University of Queensland in Brisbane, Australia, is among the researchers who are not using AI. He has made a conscious effort to avoid any sort of genAI — instead pledging on LinkedIn to rely on “natural stupidity”.

Lol

sidefaceturdtalker@leminal.space · 2 pts · 112d

Uhhh excuse me these are not academics these are brain chads