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The MIT AI study scandal shows everything wrong with hype-driven academic publishing—and why it shouldn't clutter a serious tech news feed like Slashdot. A grad student wowed economists with flashy claims about AI and scientific progress, but once people examined the evidence, the data behind the paper couldn't be verified, and MIT had to disavow the whole thing. Leading academics who showered praise on it now admit there’s no trustworthy foundation, proving that peer review sometimes fails when “AI” is attached to headlines. This isn’t about AI progress or real innovation—it’s about sloppy hype, retracted research, and eroded trust. Real tech news readers deserve verified stories and real breakthroughs, not academic PR disasters that waste our attention.

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