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erronis

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2. Paper mill quality in - review mill quality out. Nice comment!

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Thu Apr 24, 2025, 08:18 PM

Apr 24

Of course crap like this has existed ever since we were copying texts on papyrus or clay tablets. But since it can now be automated the crap has expanded billions of time (cite?).

I did enjoy looking at the pubpeer paper you listed. If I had known that "linear regression" was just a "relapse technique" I probably could have aced my stats classes.

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'Squared blunder': Google engineer withdraws preprint after getting called out for using AI [View all] erronis Apr 24 OP

At least, he did not try to compute the "vile true blunder" for anything: that calculation can be evil. xocetaceans Apr 24 #1

Paper mill quality in - review mill quality out. Nice comment! erronis Apr 24 #2

It is interesting to read from the paper and try to guess what the AI was substituting into the text. xocetaceans Apr 24 #4

More pollution of our information ecosystem. Even if all the twits using generative AI stopped now, highplainsdem Apr 24 #3

I agree. n/t xocetaceans Apr 24 #5

I love retraction watch. The scientists in the lab where my wife works really appreciated her turning them on to it. NNadir Apr 25 #6