Viral AI review prompt: reproduce papers, compare against simplest baseline

A widely shared prompt instructs AI to reproduce a paper and compare it against the simplest sufficient baseline. In about 10 trials, 7 uncovered data issues in the paper and 3 found the simple baseline performed better.

2026-10-22 ~ 2026-10-22 · 2 related posts

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