Trust The “Science”…That Just Retracted 11,000 “Peer Reviewed” Papers
May 27th, 2024The AI Comedy Gold keeps coming.
Via: ZeroHedge:
It’s yet another reminder of why blindly ‘trusting the science’ may not always be the best go-to move in the future.
217 year old Wiley science publisher has reportedly “peer reviewed” more than 11,000 papers that were determined to be fake without ever noticing. The papers were referred to as “naked gobbledygook sandwiches”, Australian blogger Jo Nova wrote on her blog last week.
“It’s not just a scam, it’s an industry,” she said. “Who knew, academic journals were a $30 billion dollar industry?”
According to Nova’s post, professional cheating services are employing AI to craft seemingly “original” academic papers by shuffling around words. For instance, terms like “breast cancer” morphed into “bosom peril,” and a “naïve Bayes” classifier turns into “gullible Bayes.”
Similarly, in one paper, an ant colony was bizarrely rebranded as an “underground creepy crawly state.”
The misuse of terminology extends to machine learning, where a ‘random forest’ is whimsically translated to ‘irregular backwoods’ or ‘arbitrary timberland’.
I’m not laughing. I want my share of that $30 B, taken from me in taxes, back.
What happens to the authors of these swindles, their bosses who failed to see the problems, the publishers ditto? Maybe a few scapegoats will get the Claudine Gay treatment while the furor dies down.
Why were the readers of these articles not crying foul when they came out? Do people actually read them or just line their office shelves with them so they look like they’re keeping up in their fields?
The world would be better off if no one reads them and does something stupid based on what he read. And my share of that $30 B would no longer be taken annually and wasted (or would be wasted on something else, alas).