John OverholtFeb 15, 2025
Why is the nonsense phrase “vegetative electron microscopy” turning up in fake scientific papers? Add two-column formatting to the list of things AI doesn’t understand. https://retractionwatch.com/2025/02/10/vegetative-electron-microscopy-fingerprint-paper-mill/
Via @researchbuzz
As a nonsense phrase of shady provenance makes the rounds, Elsevier defends its use

The origin of the phrase? The phrase was so strange it would have stood out even to a non-scientist. Yet “vegetative electron microscopy” had already made it past reviewers and editors at several j…

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Show threadCassandrichFeb 15, 2025
@overholt @researchbuzz Wow, the comments on that are so utterly idiotic. A bunch of apologist reply guys who can't tell the image is the potentially misplagiarized training source and not one of the AI-slop papers that pulled from it.
Show threadThatKomputerKat 
@dalias @overholt @researchbuzz yeah. It’s amazing but then I guess it shouldn’t be surprising that the people who would rush to the defense of AI would be the same people who are incapable of critical thinking or… well… having the attention span needed to actually read beyond a headline and scanned image.
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Show threadBornachFeb 17, 2025

@thatKomputerKat @dalias @overholt @researchbuzz
That Microsoft/Carnegie Mellon study probably has a point. AI is making us stupid.
https://uk.news.yahoo.com/ai-risks-making-us-stupid-164702116.html

So many comments are now trolls, rush-to-judgement without first reading, or generated by AI that I don't bother arguing or correcting anymore.

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