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
How do you like your botched medical diagnosis, misrepresentation in court, poorly designed building falling apart, dangerous environmental planning causing disastrous floods… I could go on. This is serous & deadly stuff people need to pay attention to. As an educator. what I see is scary
