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Professor Caught Using ChatGPT When Scientific Paper Was Full of Errors (futurism.com)
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A biologist was shocked to find his name was mentioned several times in a scientific paper, which references papers that simply don't exist.

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[–] gjghkk@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 year ago

I recently watched an interview with an academic woman who trolled the academia with completely wrong things in his papers, and yet it was approved. Academics, and scientific data is not so objective as it may seem from the outside.