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 sci