A leading scientific journal faces humiliation after it published a completely fake paper, purportedly written by Chinese researchers, which contained AI generated images of a rat with a penis bigger than its own body.
The Telegraph reports that the journal Frontiers in Cell and Development Biology published a paper that claimed to show the signalling pathway of sperm stem cells, but depicted a rat sitting upright with a massive dick and four giant testicles.
The illustration was reportedly created by using Midjourney, the AI imaging tool, which added labels to the ridiculous diagram using terms that don’t exist, including “dissilced”, “testtomcels” and “senctolic”.
Another ludicrous image to the right of the rat displays “sterrn cells” in a Petri dish being spooned out.
Subsequent images in the paper also displayed terms and biological systems that simply are not real.
Remarkably, the paper found its way into the journal, where it was read by scientists who immediately recognised the images and descriptions were not grounded in “any known biology”.
The journal retracted the paper, issued an apology and announced that it is working to “correct the record”.
Adrian Liston, professor of pathology at Cambridge University and editor of the journal Immunology & Cell Biology warned of the dangers of AI being used to create scientific diagrams, noting “Generative AI is very good at making things that sound like they come from a human being. It doesn’t check whether those things are correct.”
“It is like an actor playing a doctor on a TV show – they look like a doctor, they sound like a doctor, they even use words that a doctor would use. But you wouldn’t want to get medical advice from the actor,” he further noted, warning that “The problem for real journals is getting harder, because generative AI makes it easier for cheats.”
“It used to be really obvious to tell cheat papers at a glance. It is getting harder, and a lot of people in scientific publishing are getting genuinely concerned that we will reach a tipping point where we won’t be able to manually tell whether an article is genuine or a fraud,” Liston further cautioned.
People have since been creating their own AI rat images, in an attempt to work out what the Chinese ‘researchers’ typed into Midjourney to make the images that got published.
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Funny, but symbolic of a much graver truth: AI as being developed/implemented, is going to make a major contribution to the degrading and destruction of the species and world, and nothing that the PTB are doing or can do path-dependent and system-straitjacketed will stop or even seriously arrest it. Only a very different, unique, non-random-discoverable, and Quantum-Integral approach can hope to do so, and it’s currently receiving zero backing or support, whilst billions and trillions are thrown away on epic imbecility like cheap confetti at a robot-wedding. That is how the Doomed perish, most assuredly.
I like that Liston’s comments here are phrased as if the issue is that the fakery was really difficult to detect. “It used to be really obvious to tell cheat papers at a glance. It is getting harder.” Not in this case, guy.
The actual issue is that it was cartoonishly obvious as nonsense to any layman, and therefore you know the esteemed scientific journal *doesn’t even look at submissions before publishing them*—despite the fact that, as this is the medical profession, literal matters of health, life, and death could depend upon their doing so.
People will literally believe anything.
Remember…these are “peer reviewed” journals. posting high quality vetted work.
SO you can believe them. On everything they print.
I don’t get it. To begin with it’s not a picture of a rat, it’s clearly an illustration. I see it as simply an enlargement for clarity as is often done. Not as an attempt to make people think the organ is actually that large. Perhaps it could have been done better, but to think it is meant to actually represent a rat with a comically huge reproductive member is the misrepresentation here, and not some attempt at scientific deception. In fact, I believe the whole article is fake, including the quotes presented. At the least, an “April Fools” joke released a couple of weeks too early.
Or is the article as published here in Modernity the actual premature April Fools prank?
The article clearly says ‘IMAGE of a rat’ not ‘PICTURE of a rat’. The word ‘image’ includes illustrations, and the word ‘illustration’ is also used in subsequent sentences I don’t know why you are trying to lie to make it look like some kind of exaggeration or misrepresentation is happening here.
People get fake climate hysteria papers published all of the time. The degeneration of western society has extended to the sciences as well.
Yes, and the other climatisters circle the wagons to protect it from criticism by “climate deniers” every time.
They made the mistake to trash the West before ‘the sciences’ were even really attained, now they very likely won’t be ever in this failed experiment, larely as a result.