Dumping protein databases online is welcomed; publishing papers from that data gets you fought off
RexDouglass · x · 2026-10-15
An observation on AI and academia: releasing a database of proteins online is seen as a new opportunity, but dumping hundreds of papers derived from that data is treated as direct competition that researchers will fight off. The author notes that a terabyte of raw automated output would likely have been fine — it's work that 'could almost be published' that triggers reviewer backlash.
Related event: AI-generated math proofs anger reviewers while protein data is welcomed(2 posts)→
More from AGI Musings
- Ari Emanuel on AI: Agent Era Threatens Google and Amazon Ads, Social Networks Undervalued — Stratechery · 2026-10-15
- Yacine: you can outsource your thinking, but not your understanding — sanjanasinghx · 2026-10-15
- Creative industry asks: is the AI "taste" discourse engineers trying to solve creativity? — teropa · 2026-10-15
- Axiom claims proof of generalized quasi-Riemann hypothesis for all Dedekind zeta functions — basedjensen · 2026-10-15
- AI for Science: don't spend data teaching models symmetries physics already encodes — bravo_abad · 2026-10-15
- shwarm.org: like a swarm of agents, but with humans in the loop — allisonmaybe · 2026-10-15