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It takes, er....big balls, and lots of them, to publish AI generated nonsense art in a scientific paper.
Also I don't ever want to hear that Frontiers is not a predatory publisher.
https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fcell.2023.1339390/full
oof, right in the testtomcels
@ct_bergstrom They are a bunch of retats!
@ct_bergstrom What the hell am I looking at? A new kind of marsupial? 
Extreme rodent porn?
@ct_bergstrom Maybe a cuckoo put the super sized testicle there?
@ct_bergstrom ...all...five of those images...
how can you trust the contents of the paper, then
@draNgNon @ct_bergstrom The answer to that question is rather simple: you don't.
@draNgNon @ct_bergstrom but the reviewer said he reviewed the text, just that the illustrations weren't his job
That's such a good cover-up excuse, why wouldn't you believe it?
I'm sure you can base your rodent-testimclz opinions on this don't worry!
*Toots not sponsored by reviewers who give a fuck*
@StrepsipZerg @draNgNon @ct_bergstrom but the technology is advanced enough to make more realistic figures, so I am kind of confused. They should sue the paper mill...
Maybe it is a joke that was unfortunately accepted in the journal...
@Don_Rubiel who do you think should sue who, I'm not sure what you mean?
@ct_bergstrom What am I even looking at...
@ct_bergstrom Amazing that it got published! 
@ct_bergstrom I've been reading about Frontiers being shit for at lest eight years, and nothing I've seen has convinced me otherwise, but this is on another level.
@ct_bergstrom my colleague answered with - "this is just the beginning" and attached this link: https://openai.com/sora#capabilities 
we're doomed
@ct_bergstrom@fediscience.org HOW tf did THIS ever pass peer review?
@ct_bergstrom To err is human.
To cock something up beyond all possible benchmarks, you need generative AI.
@ct_bergstrom https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fcell.2024.1386861/full
Looks like they retracted it, but I think the damage is done - they showed what they can get away with
@bismuthcrow @ct_bergstrom A single incident like this is a symptom that highlights that their peer review process is completely broken. A retraction covers up this symptom, but does nothing to fix that peer review process.
The peer review process certainly is straining right now, but one cannot conclude from the observation that a predatory journal fails to conduct rudimentary peer review that the state of peer review at reputable journals is broken.
@ct_bergstrom @bismuthcrow Yes, I meant to refer specifically to the review process of that one publication. While I see lots of problems with the common implementation of peer review in general, I think it's perfectly capable filtering out garbage like this.
@ct_bergstrom Facts are sacred and will only become moreso, right now we're in the shitpost phase but it'll get dangerous soon.
@ct_bergstrom However, the paper's altmetrics are _through the roof_. :-D
@modrak_m I noticed that!
@ct_bergstrom
Anyone else disappointed that their own paper on ridiculously large genitals in lab rats failed peer review as not being unique enough? Scientific publishing is brutal.
@ct_bergstrom And there are more 
. Enjoy a spoonful of sterrn cells on your proprounization stats pizza. https://scienceintegritydigest.com/2024/02/15/the-rat-with-the-big-balls-and-enormous-penis-how-frontiers-published-a-paper-with-botched-ai-generated-images/
What doujin is this lol
@ct_bergstrom @wolfgangcramer The rat looks kinda happy.
@ct_bergstrom
Don't know what you're talking about. That's clearly a very normal picture of a mouse and it's giant balls.
@ct_bergstrom
Well, they correctly labeled the rat
@ct_bergstrom Dusting off this email thread to check in on a fellow academic who was shilling for them last year... I emailed them to express concern last October after they invited me to submit, and here are some excerpts from their lengthy email reply which in retrospect are not unlike the academic version of the "heyyy girlie 
" MLM dm
Academics are so used to having our work be under-compensated and being stretched too thin on responsibilities that we think it couldn't possibly be a scam
@ct_bergstrom TFW : Your AI really commits to the “exploded diagram” concept.
@ct_bergstrom What, and I cannot stress this enough, the FUCK? 
@ct_bergstrom rude of them to use my fursona without asking.
@ct_bergstrom ohhhhh so THIS is what the “retat” meme going around on cohost is referring to 
someone photoshopped it into a cereal