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AIHacker Newsabout 3 hours ago
Academic hiring bans AI promptsA researcher faced rejection during a tenure-track interview after using ChatGPT and Claude on their laptop instead of drawing diagrams by hand or speaking from memory alone. The committee cited concerns about independent thinking while the candidate argued that modern science relies entirely on prompting large language models to generate text, design experiments like CRISPR studies, and draft grants for R01 funding applications.
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