SoilFred

ServiTech Senior Lab Agronomist, Certified Crop Adviser of long standing. Seeking ways to make the planet more productive. Soil fertility and management.

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@LucasAHaag Huked ahn fonix.

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@FredVLarsen @agronomistag Seems that earlier authors had to be more efficient writers. Monthly 1960's Agron J were 3/8" at most. Could find something like 10 yr, 5 location study summarized on 3 or 4 pages

[Hedgie @HedgieMarkets]

🦔A researcher invented a fake eye condition called bixonimania, uploaded two obviously fraudulent papers about it to an academic server, and watched major AI systems present it as real medicine within weeks.
The fake papers thanked Starfleet Academy, cited funding from the Professor Sideshow Bob Foundation and the University of Fellowship of the Ring, and stated mid-paper that the entire thing was made up. Google's Gemini told users it was caused by blue light. Perplexity cited its prevalence at one in 90,000 people.

ChatGPT advised users whether their symptoms matched. The fake research was then cited in a peer-reviewed journal that only retracted it after Nature contacted the publisher.

My Take
The researcher made the papers as obviously fake as possible on purpose. The AI systems didn't catch it. Neither did the human researchers who cited it in real journals, which means people are feeding AI-generated references into their work without reading what they're actually citing.

I've covered the FDA using AI for drug review, the NYC hospital CEO ready to replace radiologists, and ChatGPT Health launching this year. All of that is happening in the same environment where a condition funded by a Simpsons character and endorsed by the crew of the Enterprise was being presented as emerging medical consensus. The people making these deployment decisions seem to believe the pipeline from research to AI to patient is more supervised than it actually is. This experiment suggests it isn't supervised much at all.

Hedgie🤗
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@micksterbrau He used a wire with "knots" to trip the seed drop.

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@micksterbrau My mom (born 1932) remembers her dad planting checked corn.

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@FarmChicJodi Paraquat is used to dessicate cotton. Should we ban cotton clothing? I believe paraquat is more toxic than glyphosate.

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After seeing contents of our trash dumpster, I think that Amazon may have been created to sequester carbon in shipping boxes

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@toddyke Nectar of the gods.

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@micksterbrau Too much bicep development?

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@ChrisK_Banded and the canvas changes every day.

[MAZE @mazemoore]

1989. Joe Biden delivers a televised message from the Democrat party, calling on then President Bush to do more to stop the flow of drugs into the country.

In addition to calling for more prisons and more cops, Biden said that Democrats want the creation of a strike force to attack drug dealers before they reach our borders.

"Let's go after the drug lords where they live with an international strike force. There must be no safe haven for these narco-terrorists and they must know it."

Times have changed a little.

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@ChrisK_Banded Sears & Roebuck, Montgomery-Ward, J.C. Penney ..... print equivalents of https://t.co/wpHX7WIA30

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@LucasAHaag Point made. Proper comparison would need to include nonirrigated treatments to separate irrigation and genetic impacts.

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@LucasAHaag What is interesting is that OM% has increased in 0-0 plots. Likely due to biomass increase from improved genetics.

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@OSU_NPK Great example of wanting to have your cake and eat it too. Customer perception is likely that OM will remain untouched.

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Some good business advice that is widely applicable, from article about Cracker Barrel rebrand, "Maybe it gets some ROE (return on ego) points for the marketing team, but it doesn’t get ROI (return on investment) for shareholders. "