Study featuring AI-generated giant rat penis retracted entirely, journal apologizes::A peer-reviewed study featured nonsensical AI images including a giant rat penis in the latest example of how generative AI has seeped into academia.

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    9 months ago

    ai is going to speedrun us into idocracy, isn’t it? why learn when you can ask dr. sbaitso to just do it for you?

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      9 months ago

      Doctooore Sbaitso, please enter your name.

      Man I wondered if I’d ever talk to anyone else that used it. I liked asking him to pronounce “abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz”, and he actually did a pretty good job.

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      9 months ago

      Peer review was already a joke, as exposed a couple years ago by two researchers who got a paper full of BS published.

      It’s been wells established that nearly all published research papers are irreproducible.

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        9 months ago

        How long until there’s an accepted study of the benefits of electrolytes on plants. Probably already exists in gatoraids filing cabinet.

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      9 months ago

      It’s certainly not helping.

      We’re already dealing with the problem of half the (US) population only believing things when they align with their political views and now on can’t even Google something and be sure that the entire first page of results isn’t SEO AI hallucinated misinformation.

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        9 months ago

        “Search engine optimized artificial intelligence hallucinated misinformation”

        Omg, we are in a cyberpunk dystopia aren’t we?