A perfect storm between cuts in funding and implementation of AI.
Posted by Pikes Peak 14115 on October 1, 2025, 1:59 pm
Cell Press, anticipating cuts in funding, developed AI to take over the paper editing jobs of staff, like my daughter. They claim it can take only a few seconds for what required a team to achieve all day.
I have seen some AI generated science videos on You Tube, and they're wrong. For example a video on the largest insects.
In the presentation of beetles, the overall champion Titanus giganteus was featured. However AI combing the internet with mindless stupidity and inability to differentiate, provided photographs of the real Titanus, along with Callipogon armillatus, Xixithrus heros, and Ctenocerus coeus. Blatant mistakes that nobody responsible for the video caught.
Description of the early biology was for Callipogon, not Titanus. Another egrigious mistake.
In serious science and medical papers, even tiny mistakes can cost money and lives.
In the early 1980's my wife worked for TRW, and her boss, a Dr. Bettwy was removed from a Strategic Defense Initiative Program development due to a misspelling of a chemical. Reasoning was such a tiny error could not be allowed, for its potential to cause serious problems later. It was an error due to carelessness!
Remember the Mars probe NASA lost due to a simple math error discovered later when troubleshooting the data? Several hundred million dollars of project was instantly lost forever due to a wrong number!
In a medical research paper, a tiny error like that could kill people during surgery or treatment.
The frequency I see in AI generated insect videos is alarming. I know the producers of that material are eager to get their product on You Tube, to be seen by as wide a market of viewers as possible, for that generates income for the producers.
That is why I asked you to subscribe and like my You Tube material, because that is how you earn revenue from You Tube, paid for by the advertisers whose ads occur during your video.
So you or somebody might ask legit, who the hell is this dufus, to question a video? Well, just an entomologist for almost as long as I've been a student of music. More than sixty years, and I have researched, studied and collected those specimens. I know the difference between Titanus, Callipogon, Xixithrus and Ctenocerus. That's why my specimens are all labeled with name, and specific collecting data. A peer examining one of my specimens has information with which he may compare with others, to form a consensus of understanding. It may be superficial like date of capture, or description of a tarsi feature, or may be a chemical analysis of a chitenous membrane of the elytra between fourth and fifth venous support structure, and differences in such between specimens captured in French Guiana as opposed to Brazlians specimens captured south of Belem.
See where I am going?
God bless 'em, bvt most people aren't going to catch these errors, or even find out about them, or care if they do. AI has zero empathy about "caring" what is right. Human beings do, and that's why in this area, AI is a looming problem.
You cannot replace the expertise of a human being! You can look away from a painting, but you can't listen away from a symphony
Humans are so busy replacing humans with AI that sooner or later we'll cement our own doom by making them as effective as humans, without the understanding of humans nor concerns about ethics or morality.
on October 1, 2025, 1:59 pm
