How AI slop generators started talking about ‘vegetative electron microscopy’
In a world of publish or perish, academics will too often turn to our helpful robot friends and ask a chatbot to write the text of a paper for them. Sometimes they don’t check too closely if the re…
The phrase is now in Guillaume Cabanac’s Problematic Paper Screener — along with “bosom peril,” “kidney disappointment,” “fake neural organizations,” and “lactose bigotry.”
Lactose bigotry is amazing. I want to add Gluten Fascist to the list
Some of these would make great band names.
Ladies and gentlemen, up next, give a big hand for Bosom Peril with their new multi platinum single "Lactose Bigotry"!
Okay, as a nonnative speaker I get "kidney failure" and "lactose intolerance".
What are "bosom peril", "fake neural organizations" and the titular "vegetative electron microscopy"?
Today’s tell is the phrase “vegetative electron microscopy” — an OCR artifact from scanning a paper with “vegetative” in the first column and “electron microscopy” next to it in the second column and reading it as a single phrase. ... But it keeps showing up. “Vegetative electron microscopy” is present in about 20 papers on Google Scholar, including one in an Elsevier journal.
Sounds like the LLMs are already eating themselves.
I am so tired of people judging lactose by the color of its spectrogram and not the content of its carbohydrate chain.
Solution: don't become an academic if you can't be bothered to actually do academia stuff.