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$219 Springer Nature AI textbook was written with a chatbot (pivot-to-ai.com)

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[–] blakestacey@awful.systems 6 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

"DS" in the Retraction Watch comments makes a good observation:

What scientific book only has 46 references?

A question for future work: This book is part of a "Transactions on Computer Systems and Networks" series. How many of the others in that series are also slop?

[–] TinyTimmyTokyo@awful.systems 4 points 2 days ago

When this was first posted I too was curious about the book series. It appears that nearly every book in the series is authored by academics affiliated with Indian universities. Modi's government has promoted and invested heavily in AI.