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.
Me:
Impactful world news: Pass
Troubling local US news: Pass
News about giant rat penis: Click
sips coffee slowly
It’s not so much the use of AI that’s upsetting as it is the “peer review” process. There needs to be a massive change in how journals review studies, before reasonable people start to question every study based on cases like this. How many false studies are currently used for important shit that we just haven’t caught yet?
It got published, people noticed it, people saw it was bullshit, it got retracted. Publishing is not the end of the line.
It’s an extreme example, but it’s still an example of the system working in the end. Reasonable people are supposed to question what they read, not blindly trust it, that’s how you catch “important shit”.
The problem is not that some bad papers get published. The problem would be them staying unchallenged. And it’s also a problem that laymen consider one random study is an undeniable proof of their argument (potentially ignoring the thousands of studies contradicting it).
Of course some things will always slip through the cracks, but this is egregious. What does their peer-review process look like that this passed through it?
Right? Even when skimming papers, it’s usually: read title & abstract, look at figures, skim results & conclusion. If you don’t notice that the figure doesn’t have real words, how is anyone making sure the methodology makes sense? That the results show what the conclusion says they show?
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:
ai is going to speedrun us into idocracy, isn’t it? why learn when you can ask dr. sbaitso to just do it for you?
Peer review was already a joke, as exposed a couple years ago by two researchers who got a paper full of BS published.
It’s been wells established that nearly all published research papers are irreproducible.
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
- Air vent
- Fan
- Saddam Hussein
It’s like trying to read in a dream
At least it correctly labelled the Rat, but kinda missed the dck
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.
Yeah, the Journal is at a huge loss of credibility with this. Their entire purpose is to be respectable and review submissions with a high degree of scrutiny.
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?
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.
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.
He literally said
I wonder if there was an element of racism that went into ignoring the reviewer’s concerns?
So…
I retract my statement, as I cannot read.
Happens to all of us from time to time.