AI influencers who post papers without reading them create a bandwagon of surface-level claims.

However, the less time an influencer spends reading and understanding the paper, the less likely they are to grasp its actual impact. This fuels a bandwagon effect, where readers encounter the same hook, spend even less time reading the influencer’s post (even if it attempts to explain the nuance), and then begin making their own claims based solely on surface-level impressions.