I’ve been ranting & raging for years about predatory journals publishing bad & fake research, then ranting & raging for years about AI generated papers with more fake articles, authors, journals in citations. People using AI to generate fake publications & pass it as ‘research’ deserve all the hells
Recently, I was peer reviewing a paper, and it cited one of my papers.
Except... it wasn't anything I had written. The title sounds like something I'd write. It included coauthors I work with, and was in a journal I've published in.
But it wasn't real.
AI is not good for science.
Academia, science/tech & medical research & everything that relies on these - from surgeries to climate change to urban design to everything else - is now at risk of massive disinformation & disastrous outcome & crisis. AI isn’t just some tool, it can cause real harm & have long-lasting consequences
Special hell for the hustlers peddling ChatGPT & AI to our students for years. Talk about crippling their abilities to think critically, write analytically, find & assess research on their own, adjudicate evidence based on learning. These folks then become your fake doctors, pilots, lawyers, etc. 😱
I hate those people. And the hacks on social media peddling this shite for years too, with large following, and encouraging more people to spread the gospel of fakery. Students are being abused and their skill sets crippled or undeveloped when they need to be
I tell my students that any policy other than my zero tolerance for ChatGPT would do them a grave disservice. I also explain that it is theft, environmentally catastrophic, etc.
