"We’ve saved the funniest tool for last: the tortured phrases detector. Sometimes researchers copy paste text from other academic papers. To avoid accusations of plagiarism they use tools that automatically rewrite the text. But this doesn’t always go well. Sometimes it results in phrases that sound weird and no longer make sense in their context. ‘Artificial intelligence’ becomes ‘counterfeit consciousness’ while ‘deep neural network’ is changed into ‘profound neural organization.’ Nonsensical terms like these suggest a paper has been produced by a paper mill. Guillaume Cabanac and colleagues have pioneered the detection of tortured phrases in computer science, but others have used it in medicine and found some hilarious examples. ‘Anal canal’ became ‘butt-centric waterway’ while ‘breast cancer’ is often rephrased as ‘bosom peril’."
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