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highplainsdem

(59,279 posts) Fri Nov 28, 2025, 02:28 PM Nov 28

Scientific reports in the age of AI - This actually got published at Nature.com [View all]

"Runctitiononal features"? "Medical fymblal"? "1 Tol Line storee"? This gets worse the longer you look at it. But it's got to be good, because it was published in Nature Scientific Reports last week: www.nature.com/articles/s41... h/t @asa.tsbalans.se
— Erik Angner (@erikangner.com) 2025-11-27T09:30:27.070Z

UPDATE: The publisher intends to retract the paper, but insists it went through two rounds of review from two independent peer reviewers: nobreakthroughs.substack.com/p/riding-the... by @jacksonwryan.com. No word on how they will make sure this sort of thing never happens again.
— Erik Angner (@erikangner.com) 2025-11-28T08:17:23.081Z

The "scientific report"

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-025-24662-9

haa this added to it as of today:

28 November 2025 Editor’s Note: Readers are alerted that the contents of this paper are subject to criticisms that are being considered by editors. A further editorial response will follow the resolution of these issues.

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The new paradigm is minimal editorial oversight... Wounded Bear Nov 28 #1

That figure shouldn't have gotten past anyone who wasn't blind. Including the author. highplainsdem Nov 28 #5

No argument here...nt Wounded Bear Nov 28 #6

I'd be looking hard at the reviewers SheltieLover Nov 28 #2

AI reviewers? KT2000 Nov 28 #3

"Peers" of the author, apparently nilram Nov 28 #13

Famous author: dalton99a Nov 28 #4

Vocational ! College of Press ! and Publishing ! ... just the sort of place you'd expect to be doing autism research. eppur_se_muova Nov 28 #12

"...it went through two rounds of review from two independent peer reviewers." LudwigPastorius Nov 28 #7

Just the thing Bobby Brainworm can wave around as proof he was right about everything. tanyev Nov 28 #8

Anyone looking to ANY dot-com for reliable information needs education Maru Kitteh Nov 28 #9

Holy crap -- look at the "m"(?) in "frymblal" -- it's the weirdest typo ever. eppur_se_muova Nov 28 #10

It is not cromulent because of inadequately embiggened research and review. yonder Nov 28 #15

🤣 tanyev Nov 28 #19

Now we're talking! yonder Nov 28 #26

from Gemini ( Google AI ) lapfog_1 Nov 28 #11

Why post AI results? Gemini can get things wrong as well. Please don't post AI slop here. highplainsdem Nov 28 #16

AI slop? lapfog_1 Nov 28 #18

If you use generative AI even though it's trained on stolen intellectual property, you're acting unethically. highplainsdem Nov 28 #21

so the problem is not that it is "slop" but that it works really well lapfog_1 Nov 28 #27

GenAI is always hallucinating, not reasoning, not aware of what it regurgitated. But some of its highplainsdem Nov 28 #28

The entire internet is slop? Cirsium Nov 29 #37

most of the content of the internet is not original thought lapfog_1 Nov 29 #38

Sad Cirsium Nov 29 #40

Am adding "AI sleuths" to my lifelong list of Annoying Irritants (AI) - UTUSN Nov 28 #14

You've seen people asking if something from a mainstream news source is AI? Asking about it here highplainsdem Nov 28 #20

Yea, at DU at least once, a month ago. The other, irritating latest one was UTUSN Nov 28 #31

Where's the latest one, the one you find irritating? highplainsdem Nov 28 #32

The undeniable one I self deleted as soon as the sleuth found out. UTUSN Nov 28 #33

UTUSN, you just uncovered more stuff being done by the person creating fake Obama videos earlier! highplainsdem Nov 28 #34

You have *way* *far* deeper grip on the whole subject than I will ever have - or *want*! UTUSN Nov 28 #35

There's so much of this deepfake type garbage on YouTube that they'd need fulltime staff to hunt highplainsdem Nov 28 #36

Just pathetic -- peer reviewed my ass Lettuce Be Nov 28 #17

Went through two peer reviews? haele Nov 28 #22

"The primary objectives of this research are ... To develop an explainable AI framework using TabPFNMix and SHAP for struggle4progress Nov 28 #23

I am running out of "disgusted" synonyms to really describe my reaction to this. hlthe2b Nov 28 #24

Just this morning I read about people inserting typos and mixed fonts... LAS14 Nov 28 #25

Cloudflare got shut down for 10 hours last week because of one typo in an executable file. Initech Nov 28 #29

It's crazy how fast we went from 0 to 60 on AI. Initech Nov 28 #30

This is tangential to this thread jfz9580m Nov 29 #39