UW researchers created PaperTok, an AI system that helps users turn research papers into short, engaging videos

Recently, students in the University of Washington’s Prosocial Computing Group noticed a trend on social media: People were using generative artificial intelligence to make short science videos. The trouble was that these people weren’t scientists, which, given AI’s proclivity to be convincingly wrong, could accelerate the spread of misinformation. So the lab wondered how to enable scientists and other researchers to better adapt to platforms like TikTok. “The alternative is that science is bein