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'vegetative electron microscopy' (i.ibb.co)

submitted 2 weeks ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 55 points 2 weeks ago (16 children)

Wait how did this lead to 20 papers containing the term? Did all 20 have these two words line up this way? Or something else?

[–] [email protected] 167 points 2 weeks ago (15 children)

AI consumed the original paper, interpreted it as a single combined term, and regurgitated it for researchers too lazy to write their own papers.

[–] [email protected] 173 points 2 weeks ago (14 children)

Hot take: this behavior should get you blacklisted from contributing to any peer-reviewed journal for life. That's repugnant.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

Even hotter take:

You should be abke to sue these peer-reviewed journals that let this kind of errors slip through. And they should lose the ability to call themselves "peer-reviewed".

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