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 love the current uphill battle of explaining to my students why they aren’t allowed to use AI in my English classes when their other classes encourage them to use AI for everything.
I have the same battles every class, every semester. And no university has any effective plans to deal with this, offloading the responsibility and headache to faculty, and some faculty are abusing the situation to generate their own AI created publications, research, datasets so they have no ethics
I was just talking with my husband about a danger I foresee, which is when tech companies start charging what it actually costs to run AI. Imagine a future in which the AI software you need to do your job - because you have been made literally incapable of working without it - costs more than rent 😬
