Taxacom: An AI generated scientific paper and a predatory journal

Thu Jul 4 20:38:22 CDT 2024

I saw this in the TV version. I liked the "remaining on-topic rather than
actually saying anything novel or thought-provoking or even authoritative".
Sounds like some scientific papers (this is meant to be humorous - really).
If only I had paid it more attention. Could have written my thesis in half
the time (seriously).

John Grehan

On Thu, Jul 4, 2024 at 7:46 PM Donald Hobern via Taxacom <
taxacom at lists.ku.edu> wrote:

> 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.
> >
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