Leading Scientific Journal Humiliated After Publishing Fake AI-Generated Paper About Rat With Giant Penis

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[–]Bitch-Im-a-cow 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Yeah - the journal fucked up. They expected two reviewers to vet the AI images, which didn't appropriately happen. The article was retracted within 3 days of its publication. The Tory-ograph are of course pissing themselves with excitement that a scientific journal fucked up this badly.

Here is a better article, discussing the idiocy of the reviewers and editors: https://www.vice.com/en/article/dy3jbz/scientific-journal-frontiers-publishes-ai-generated-rat-with-gigantic-penis-in-worrying-incident

Here is the article in full (PDF, with the correct name of the journal): https://cdn.arstechnica.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/fcell-11-1339390-1.pdf

This is the retraction, 3 days later: https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fcell.2024.1386861/full

[–]ActuallyNot 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

So the paper itself wasn't AI generated, just the images?

[–]Bitch-Im-a-cow 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Yes - the reviewer's explanation in the Vice article is that he wasn't responsible for reviewing the images, which makes me wonder if the article was sent to him initially without images. Still, if the managing editor (or reviewer) could not spot those goofy words in the AI images, it's time to reevaluate the editors and the review process. The article is not AI (per zerohedge), and the "giant penis" is not important, as that's typical of an expanded view in a scientific illustration. zerohedge is cancer.