Spyke
lemmy.ca

If you get caught using AI to lie about science, all the scientists in that field should be allowed to hit you with sticks and branches as much as they please.

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mortoreply
piefed.social

Or better yet, a penalty of some years in a blacklist, meaning that no journal will publish any work from you

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Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words can never... *smack* *snap* *crackle* *pop*

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discuss.tchncs.de

"To the Editor: We were unaware of Journal policies on image manipulation and had altered our submission by using an artificial intelligence (AI) tool to move the ruler to the top of the image. We therefore wish to retract our image and case report.1 Yuling Wang, M.Med. Xiangdong Mu, M.D "

So the only thing AI was used for was to... Move a ruler to the top of an image? 🧐

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So the only thing AI was used for was to... Move a ruler to the top of an image? 🧐

Yes, until they find more hallucinations

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mfed1122reply
discuss.tchncs.de

We were unaware of Journal policies on keeping copies of the original images

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dumnezeroreply
piefed.social

lmao. What a pretext!

Imagine being a researcher and not keeping the original images over the figures sent with a paper.

And wouldn't they have the upload to the AI slop platform? Or did they also delete that chat?

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I wish dumb excuses got punished more harshly, because it's either trying to escape consequences or a genuine amount of stupidity that either way should have your degree and/or funding revoked.

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“We used AI to move the ruler to the top of the image” what?

Why? Aesthetics? That’s either bullshit or the wackiest own goal of the day.

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Was going to say, literally the only 'cast' I ever heard of for bronchial tubes was ultimately fatal for the person the cast was made of and that was cougulated blood not a toxic substance.

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One of most prestigious journals in medicine got fooled by AI. Reviewer 2, how you missed this? | Spyke