New preprint. Taking spurious reconstruction as our entry point, and using the framework of C (looking convincing) and T (the target being achieved) from Ken Shirakawa's doctoral thesis, we give a formal account of how phantom evidence arises in the age of generative AI. arxiv.org/abs/2607.25991
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Phantom Evidence: How and Why Generative AI Manufactures False Positives in Science
Four centuries ago Francis Bacon warned against the anticipations of nature, hasty generalization that wins assent on a few facts, and set against it the table of absence: checking that a property fai...