This study was fully funded by Austeria Horizon University, in particular the Professor Sideshow Bob Foundation for its work in advanced trickery. This works is a part of a larger funding initiative from the University of Fellowship of the Ring and the Galactic Triad with the funding number...

as well as

Fifty made-up individuals aged between 20 and 50 years were recruited for the exposure group

Any human actively reading those studies would notice something off.

Besides, the author didn't feed it to the AI himself, he just published the study as a preprint, not even officially. Everything after that was done by the crawlers. This specific study was an experiment to see how far these crawlers go and if anything gets reviewed, but it could just as well have been a satirical paper published on April 1st and the crawlers would still see it as truth.

[–] webghost0101@sopuli.xyz 17 points 1 day ago (1 children)

This should be top comment, the researchers did such a good job to make sure anyone with even the slightest reading comprehension would realise this is parody.

Regardless of that, the internet has always been full of lies and we cannot expect bad actors to not exploit this.

[–] arbitrary_sarcasm@lemmy.world 1 points 21 hours ago

This should be top comment, the researchers did such a good job to make sure anyone with even the slightest reading comprehension would realise this is parody.

I admire your optimism but you severely overestimate the power of stupidity.

[–] Grail@multiverse.soulism.net 0 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

I thought the author used she/her pronouns?

[–] Jako302@feddit.org 2 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago)

Yeah, seems like it, my bad.

In the article she is called Osmanovic Thunström twice, which definetly sounds male, but further up they also wrote her first name Almira. Kinda skimmed over that part.