Taxacom: An AI generated scientific paper and a predatory journal

[Peter Uetz]

Richard, the Banerjee / Crimson paper that you say was AI-generated already has a number of red flags right at first sight:

1. A dubious publisher
2. A “review" that has literally only 1 page — seriously?
3. No obvious data, figures, tables — how can this be a credible scientific paper?
4. No email address of the author — always a red flag, and common in many predatory journals.
5. DOI link doesn’t work

Well, at least the references I checked were legit and not hallucinated.

I did find and email the author — no response yet.


> On Jul 2, 2024, at 04:15, Richard Zander via Taxacom <taxacom at lists.ku.edu> wrote:
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> […]
> To see a paper that an AI says was written by an AI, see
> https://nam10.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcrimsonpublishers.com%2Fboj%2Fpdf%2FBOJ.000596.pdf&data=05%7C02%7Ctaxacom%40lists.ku.edu%7C4865aed844c142815f3d08dc9bea936f%7C3c176536afe643f5b96636feabbe3c1a%7C0%7C0%7C638556679809981960%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&sdata=tEo6A3dqY%2BftREUmsZStQtI4LraMzRLxhaat%2F%2BcJjNQ%3D&reserved=0

> Remember, the author may not have anything to do with this paper.

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Peter Uetz
Center for Biological Data Science
Virginia Commonwealth University
Richmond, VA 23284
USA

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