Making very basic high school physics mistakes while discovering new superconductors.
Except they didn't discover new superconductors. Their AI came up with a novel idea to discover new superconductors, and they didn't even bother to check whether the results it hallucinated checked out.
The distinction between "having an idea" and publishing a paper where you demonstrate that the idea has merit, where you validate it, is one you shouldn't have to really explain to a high school student, much less a grad student publishing their first paper.
Except they didn't discover new superconductors. Their AI came up with a novel idea to discover new superconductors, and they didn't even bother to check whether the results it hallucinated checked out.
The distinction between "having an idea" and publishing a paper where you demonstrate that the idea has merit, where you validate it, is one you shouldn't have to really explain to a high school student, much less a grad student publishing their first paper.