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## Generative AI Academic papers
It happened again. I get notified by a Scholar Alert about a new paper that is very on topic for a paper Im writing:
Mediating Knowledge: Power in the Digital Era
http://www.ijapas.ir/index.php/ijapas/article/view/593
Its by Iranian university academics. The journal is not known to me. The language seems 'not right'. I enter various paragraphs into Quillbot detector. Most come back as 100% genAI.
I go searching for the lead author: Mohadeseh Vahidimehr.
He has 3 papers on ResearchGate but has no profile.
1. Decoding Power and Meaning in the Digital Age (full text) https://jisem-journal.com/index.php/journal/article/view/7310
2. Decoding Power and Meaning in the Digital Age (request full text only) - yes, the same paper, different journal, different pubdate.
3. Microphysics of Power and Phenomenology of Knowledge-Constructing Tools in the Digital Age(full text) ) https://journals.kmanpub.com/index.php/aitechbesosci/article/view/2456/4152
I start looking at paper 3, which came up in my initial (Brave) search. It has a very close similarity to the paper Ive just been notified about. It differs later in the paper but the Intro and method sections are almost identical.
The first 2 papers have an identical title, one is full text, one is only abstract. They both come up as human written. They bear a very close resemblance to paper 3 (and to each other for abstract content)
After that my Quillbot text entry is barred by requiring me to log in so I cannot test further (I already used VPN and Tor to bypass). I will test the full text in another AI detection tool. But both these papers are *identical*.
The lead author is a PhD student. I came across this before, with suspicious Egyptian university co authored papers where the lead author was a PhD student. I emailed him. I never got a reply.
>> I am NOT making any criticism of either the institutions, or even the named academics, who may not even know this is happening.
I am wondering how many other publishing academics are coming across this problem. When you carry out desktop research on a topic, you are looking at multiple papers at once. You are looking at titles, abstracts and scope of paper. Maybe you are not looking for papers that are not real. Maybe its escaping your attention and you are citing papers that have never been checked by human academic PR. My decision is never cite any paper that looks questionable. In this case I wont cite the paper that comes up as human written because I have doubt. I have no reason to trust these academics. Their reputation is therefore trashed.
I know that academics like @benpatrickwill have written about the tsunami of fake papers and fake citations.
This problem is 100% the fault of chatbots being released into the wild with direct intention of breaking things. In this case, the academic publishing model. Well, they succeeded.
#academia #academicchatter #publishing #peerreview #genai #ai #chatbots #quillbot
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