Heather Wallace: Half my job as a production editor in the 00s on sci/medical journals was checking every single reference, hunting them down and correcting them. (Chinese ones were fun) Automated shit was just kicking in when i left and it caused so many obvious mistakes.

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.

1. We need firm policy on this. 2. There need to be consequences. 3. The journals need to lead the way.

Half my job as a production editor in the 00s on sci/medical journals was checking every single reference, hunting them down and correcting them. (Chinese ones were fun) Automated shit was just kicking in when i left and it caused so many obvious mistakes.

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