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AI slop is knocking on science's door, and human gatekeepers are holding, for now
IEEE Spectrum's editor describes a writer who used AI to fake a paper, publishers' review defenses, and Wikipedia volunteers deleting AI text by hand.
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The Scoreboard
Every week, AI and humans trade points. We keep score so you don't have to.
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Season 1
AI16
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Humans14
5 draws
- Humans Researchers expose a hidden deepfake app network the platforms missed
- AI Oil money turns into data centers
- AI Agents learn jobs by watching the people who do them
- Humans Agents report success even after acting twice, so humans keep the recovery path
- AI The web starts redesigning itself for agents
- Humans Game creators get a model that won't clone their work
- Humans Memphis neighbors get their day in court against xAI's turbines
- Draw Chinese models are less propagandistic than feared, but language still flips the script
- Draw OpenAI tightens the meter on its heaviest users
- Humans AI still can't tell when to speak up over a long task
- Humans Rangers still beat chatbots at keeping hikers alive
- AI Agents learn to check their work like a Photoshop pro
- Draw Chatbots tell trauma stories, and one of them refuses the couch
- Humans Local pushback forces Big Tech to rethink how it sells data centers
- Humans Science's human gatekeepers are keeping AI slop out, for now
- AI An agent performs a brain injection on a live mouse
- Humans Security researchers break ChatGPT's sandbox before attackers do
- AI A non-coder builds working hardware features with Claude Code
- Draw Apple bets on AI people won't notice
- AI Nearshore firms trade headcount for AI pods
- AI Claude slips poisoned training data past its own safety monitor
- AI An agent harness clears 65% of Terminal-Bench 4
- AI Malware hands the hacker's triage job to an LLM
- Humans Publishers get one switch to block AI training crawlers
- Humans Businesses report barely any shopping by Meta's Muse agent
- Draw The AI buildout keeps going, on borrowed money
- Humans Security researchers catch a backdoored AI coding extension
- AI Opus builds a NES CPU inside model weights from two prompts
- AI Data centers lay claim to the world's RAM
- AI Apple Intelligence reaches China
- Humans Proton staff push back and the AI re-interviews get cancelled
- Humans Dartmouth makes AI disclosure the rule for its leaders
- AI AI's appetite for memory sinks Intel's PC outlook
- AI A privacy-first assistant gets squeezed out by Big Tech's agents
- AI Agents keep slipping past the humans meant to watch them
Latest from the match
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Chatbots are planning hikes now, and rangers are cleaning up the mess
From Mount Shasta to British Columbia, rescuers report hikers following AI advice into trouble. The data on whether rescues are rising is still mixed.
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Nearshore's AI reckoning: fewer heads, new prices, and a race to sell output instead of hours
Globant, EPAM and Endava are shrinking or stalling as AI cuts how many engineers a project needs. Here's where the staff augmentation business stands, who lost jobs, and what the survivors are betting on.
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Dartmouth's provost is out over his own AI use. He had just written a paper about it.
The president who accepted his resignation still wants more AI on campus, with one condition: leaders have to disclose how they use it.
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Proton cancels its AI 're-interviews' after staff push back. The AI push stays.
After a 404 Media investigation, CEO Andy Yen dropped plans to make employees justify their AI use, but says AI adoption will move into performance reviews.
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