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Why "100% AI-Generated" Is a Verdict, Not a Fact
When AI is trained on the achievements of all humanity, and used polish expression, on what grounds is the entire work labelled "a product of AI"? Where exactly should this boundary be drawn? This article proposes a three-element framework of "contribution — control — accountability".
Correlation Is Not Causation, But Our Review Process Pretends Otherwise
In Aug 2026, Science published a study on China's solar policy and bird diversity. Its "significant" causal claims drew methodological criticism. As big data and ML lower barriers, are standards eroding? This article examines editors' duties in causal inference.
The Joy and Challenges of Writing a Paper
How grounding cuts down on fabricated citations when multimodal LLMs try to zero-shot classify IoT-botnet traffic — and what it took to get the paper written, funded, and finished.
Finding chemistry's hidden mountain passes — even in territory the AI has never seen
Fast AI models for predicting chemical reactions quietly break on new chemistry — and a surprisingly simple idea fixes it
