Taxacom: An AI generated scientific paper and a predatory journal

[Donald Hobern]

Neither of you has commented on the fact that, within its single page
length, the PDF includes the same paragraph twice.

Having tried to help clean up a few documents that people "improved" with
AI, the mind-numbingly droning character of the text is the most obvious
clue this is AI-generated.

For any of you familiar with UK radio comedy shows, the tone is often
exactly like that of sentences in the show "Just A Minute" where speakers
have to talk on some topic without repeating any words. The focus is on
playing the word game and remaining on-topic rather than actually saying
anything novel or thought-provoking or even authoritative.

Donald

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On Thu, 4 Jul 2024 at 13:31, Peter Uetz <uetz at vcu.edu> wrote:


> 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.
>