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intoamplitudes ◴[] No.44007496[source]
First impressions:

1. The data in most of the plots (see the appendix) look fake. Real life data does not look that clean.

2. In May of 2022, 6 months before chatGPT put genAI in the spotlight, how does a second-year PhD student manage to convince a large materials lab firm to conduct an experiment with over 1,000 of its employees? What was the model used? It only says GANs+diffusion. Most of the technical details are just high-level general explanations of what these concepts are, nothing specific.

"Following a short pilot program, the lab began a large-scale rollout of the model in May of 2022." Anyone who has worked at a large company knows -- this just does not happen.

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1. 3s ◴[] No.44009549[source]
I agree with point 1, at least superficially. But re: point 2, there are a lot of companies with close connections to MIT (and other big institutions like Stanford) that are interested in deploying cutting edge research experiments, especially if they already have established ties with the lab/PI