paper (link without AWS tracking or “email attachment” url): https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.00411

GitHub repo (no content yet): https://github.com/annavaughan/aardvark-weather-public/tree/main

This repo will contain code and weights used to run the Aardvark Weather model. This will be released to reviewers during the review period and will be publicly available on the completion of peer review. If you would like to be notified when the codebase becomes available please email […]

I had to look up pebkac / PEBKAC

problem exists between keyboard and chair

I also like the acronym PICNIC - problem in chair not in computer

January 2023, Futurism brought widespread attention to the issue and discovered that the articles were full of plagiarism and mistakes. […] After the revelation, CNET management paused the experiment, but the reputational damage had already been done.

So the “AI experiment” is not active anymore. But the damage is already done.

It was also new to me that Wikipedia puts time-based reliability qualifiers on sources. It makes sense of course. And this example shows how a source can be good and reliable in the past, but not anymore - and differentiating that is important and necessary.

CNET began publishing articles written by an AI model under the byline “CNET Money Staff”.

(emphasis mine)

What a label. I assume that “byline” was their “article author”? “Money Staff”. Baffling.