Scientists want you to read their research papers—so they’re using gen AI to turn them into TikTok videos

A new AI tool is turning dense, time-consuming academic research papers into short, 45-second TikTok science videos for a general audience. Here’s the story behind PaperTok. What is PaperTok? Students at the University of Washington’s (UW) Prosocial Computing Group began to notice a trend on social media: Members of the general public were using generative artificial intelligence to make short science videos. The only problem was that they weren’t scientists—increasing the already high likelihood for mistakes, given it was AI-generated content. Intrigued, researchers at UW created PaperTok,...