Study featuring AI-generated giant rat penis retracted entirely, journal apologizes::A peer-reviewed study featured nonsensical AI images including a giant rat penis in the latest example of how generative AI has seeped into academia.
I hate the way AI is being used here, but those labels are fucking GOLD.
- Senctollic stem cells
- Dizlocttal stem ells
- Dissilced
- Rat
- Testtomcels
- Iollotte sserotgomar cell
- Spermatocial stem cells
- Stenm cells
- Retat
- dck
It’s like trying to read in a dream
At least it correctly labelled the Rat, but kinda missed the dck
- Air vent
- Fan
- Saddam Hussein
I loved the labels. Testtomcels.
Well that’s a headline I didn’t expect to see this morning.
Regardless of the rights and wrongs of AI generated images, it’s quite concerning something like this makes it into a scientific journal at all.
A few things came together for me here.
The paper had two reviewers, one in India and one based in the U.S.
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“…a reviewer of the paper had raised concerns about the AI-generated images that were ignored.”
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…the U.S.-based reviewer who said that they evaluated the study based solely on its scientific merits and that it was up to Frontiers whether or not to publish the AI-generated images…
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"The authors failed to respond to these requests. We are investigating how our processes failed to act on the lack of author compliance… "
They don’t outright say it in the article, but it looks like the reviewer based in India was the one who actually raised concerns about the garbage images. The authors were supposed to respond, but didn’t, and the journal published anyway.
I will readily admit that this is just my own conclusion here, but – I wonder if there was an element of racism that went into ignoring the reviewer’s concerns?
Check out their controversies section on Wikipedia. This doesn’t seem out of character for this publication. It’s more likely incompetence than malice.
Why do you bring up race? Is there anything that would imply that?
People are lazy and incompetent as fuck, and it’s been an industry wide problem that publishing companies in general have lower and lower standards of quality.
I brought it up purely as speculation, as one possible explanation for why the process was not properly followed. I don’t have any experience with publishing companies, whether for science journals or otherwise.
He didn’t bring up race, he brought up location. Like, you’re the one that brought up race? If it was one American reviewer and one Australian reviewer and this poster said “the Austrian caught it”, would you have made the same comment you just did?
What if the “reviewer based in India” is white?
Edit: I am a ijit, I actually agree with you, and my “what if person based in india is white” should be directed at the guy you’re replying to.
AI generated medical research can’t make it past peer review, it can’t hurt you
AI generated medical research that made it past peer review:
Giant rat penises will only hurt you if you have an underlying medical condition (anal fissures, etc).
The paper was authored by three scientists in China, edited by a researcher in India, reviewed by two people from the U.S. and India, and published in the open access journal Frontiers in Cell Development and Biology on Monday.
Now THAT is Maximum Trolling. I hope someone at Cell Development got fired
South Park strikes again
Jesus, talk about getting rat fucked.
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Time for a “dick of a rat” joke
