Well, yours truly actually guessed right. Hallucinations in tandem with AI is screwing the pooch in terms of AI vis a vis science because there is no pristine content left so the tech bros are tasking AI to make up new content which, as stated before, is akin to inbreeding by the royals with another prime example of hemophilia courtesy Queen Victoria.
Scientists are a skeptical bunch — it’s in the job description. But when it comes to AI, researchers are growing increasingly mistrustful of the tech’s capabilities.
In a preview of its 2025 report on the impact of the tech on research, the academic publisher Wiley released preliminary findings on attitudes toward AI. One startling takeaway: the report found that scientists expressed less trust in AI than they did in 2024, when it was decidedly less advanced.
For example, in the 2024 iteration of the survey, 51 percent of scientists polled were worried about potential “hallucinations,” a widespread issue in which large language models (LLMs) present completely fabricated information as fact. That number was up to a whopping 64 percent in 2025, even as AI use among researchers surged from 45 to 62 percent.
Anxiety over security and privacy were up 11 percent from last year, while concerns over ethical AI and transparency also ticked up.
Indeed, the bloom is off the rose.
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