Though wrapped in the aesthetic of science, this paper is a pure expression of the AI hype’s ideology, including its reliance on invisible, alienated labor. Its data was manufactured to spec to support the authors’ pre-existing beliefs, and its conclusions are nothing but a re-articulation of their arrogance and ideological impoverishment.
First reaction: “Wait, that was in Nature?”
Second reaction: “Oh, Nature Scientific Reports. The ‘we have Nature at home’ of science journals.”
Among many insights, Davis (politely) points out that one of the AI-generated Chaucer poems is just “the opening of the Prologue to the Canterbury Tales.”
Whan that Aprille with the fuck?
That’s exactly why the series is about papers on Nature.com. They’re trading on the prestige of the domain to spinoff various portfolio journals and companies get to go to potential customers saying, “according to a study published in Nature…”
