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This was published on nature.com.

It looks like the whole article was AI generated.Here are responses from pubpeer.

I never thought I'd see professionals just kind of collectively give up on putting effort into things. Maybe by "fexcectorn" and "frymbial" levels are abnormal?

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[–] Xavienth@lemmygrad.ml 8 points 1 day ago

I love one when one radian of a bicycle tire indicates an autism score of 0.93

[–] insurgentrat@hexbear.net 34 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Shit like this just affirms my opinion that people who think "ai" (llms and diffusion models) are useful or produce good outputs are literally incapable or perceiving detail.

They wade through life noticing only vague shapes and blobs of colour, getting the vibe of a text and nothing more.

[–] volcel_olive_oil@hexbear.net 9 points 1 day ago

I have a similar belief in that I think many people's brains are just really really good at correcting and filling in sensory input, to the degree that they massively overcorrect and perceive (for example) a stick figure drawing as an anatomically perfect illustration of a human.

[–] Philosoraptor@hexbear.net 8 points 1 day ago

Gonna give this whole paper to my scientific writing class on Monday and tell them to find all the AI-induced problems in it.

[–] Arahnya@hexbear.net 26 points 1 day ago (2 children)
[–] bunitor@lemmy.eco.br 4 points 1 day ago

my autism resides at the front of my autism

[–] miz@hexbear.net 58 points 1 day ago (2 children)
[–] Blakey@hexbear.net 40 points 1 day ago (1 children)

"nature scientific reports" published it. It's a nature publication but it's really not the same as being published in the journal "nature". Still fucking disturbing but they didn't actually get this shite into one of the most trusted journals in all of academia.

[–] nasezero@hexbear.net 27 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Still fucking disturbing but they didn't actually get this shite into one of the most trusted journals in all of academia.

so-far

[–] AF_R@hexbear.net 21 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] insurgentrat@hexbear.net 9 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

The person who wrote the paper is a researcher at a chinese college

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-025-24662-9

Shimei Jiang

Anhui Vocational College of Press and Publishing, Hefei, 230601, Anhui, China
[–] LeninWeave@hexbear.net 8 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

"The west has fallen" was a joke about one of the most prestigious publications in the west publishing this (though this was not actually Nature, just another publication they own and put their name on). Lazy and fraudulent researchers exist everywhere (as you pointed out in another comment in this thread).

[–] insurgentrat@hexbear.net 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Nature isn't really a western journal in any meaningful sense. Scientific publishing is pretty international.

Also this isn't the nature, it's nature's open access journal which is a scam by which researchers pay huge amounts of money to have unpaid researchers review their article for free and nature doesn't paywall it as thanks.

Scientific publishing is in the toilet. Science is deeply hierarchical and metric driven, actual science is done by the idealistic and the entrenched, or by accident by people climbing the ladder.

[–] LeninWeave@hexbear.net 10 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Nature isn't really a western journal in any meaningful sense.

It's an originally British journal, owned by a British company, owned by a British-German parent company. The vast, vast majority of the editors are born in, educated in, or employed in western countries, mostly all 3 from what I can tell.

Also this isn't the nature

Yes, I pointed this out in my comment as well. It's all a scam lmao, they want to have it both ways - a prestigious journal and infinite money from pay-to-publish attached to the name of the prestigious journal.

Scientific publishing is in the toilet. Science is deeply hierarchical and metric driven, actual science is done by the idealistic and the entrenched, or by accident by people climbing the ladder.

yea

[–] moss_icon@hexbear.net 52 points 1 day ago (1 children)

AI really is causing so many people to shut off their brains because this is quite possibly the most obvious AI slop I’ve ever seen.

[–] thefunkycomitatus@hexbear.net 20 points 1 day ago

This new diagram generation really bothers me. We already have an epidemic of people using bad or unnecessary diagrams to make their work seem more credible than it is. People have already lost the concept of graphic aides. With AI slop it just going to go further and people can easily put any nonsense into a diagram. The idea being that if you can make it into a diagram then it's meaningful. The abuse is now going to be tenfold.

[–] Damarcusart@hexbear.net 36 points 1 day ago

I'm so sick of my autistic friends being accused of missing value and runctitional features sadness

[–] jaupsinluggies@feddit.uk 5 points 1 day ago

Runctitional sounds like something Doddy would have invented.

[–] btbt@hexbear.net 10 points 1 day ago

Stroke core

[–] Kefla@hexbear.net 35 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I love the brain simply labeled "AUTISM" twice.

[–] Evilphd666@hexbear.net 14 points 1 day ago

Well you see one is an AUTISM affected non binary brain. The other are airborne AUTISM particles from people who take Tylenol. /s

[–] mayakovsky@hexbear.net 16 points 1 day ago

Reading those comments, wow, that's fucking brazen. Fully hallucinated citations.

Was this done as a Sokal affair type stunt?

[–] Assian_Candor@hexbear.net 23 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Factor Fexcectorn is my favorite character in the Mad Max universe

[–] LeZero@hexbear.net 10 points 1 day ago

Do not, my friends, become addicted to Tylenol. It will take hold of you, and you will resent it's absence!

[–] TrustedFeline@hexbear.net 14 points 1 day ago

&runctitional features

Factor Fexcectorn

[–] Flyberius@hexbear.net 26 points 1 day ago

I get bombarded with tech articles with these nonsensical diagrams on them. Ines going everywhere. Cloud points to database. Database points to python. Cool dude stares at machine with dials that read indentation...

[–] woodenghost@hexbear.net 34 points 1 day ago

Wow, that's horrible! Market pressure have been acting on scientists, journals and so on for a while, but with these new tools, what's left of "scientific integrity" will continue to erode even faster.

That's another nice example of a contradiction. Capitalism needs science for innovation to keep increasing productivity and yet it cannibalizes the conditions for it's own existence in it's endless hunger for profit.

[–] segfault11@hexbear.net 13 points 1 day ago

that’s not autism that’s aitism

[–] Llituro@hexbear.net 38 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Shutdown Nature, most discerning journal my ass

[–] LeninWeave@hexbear.net 6 points 1 day ago

Nature? More like Hitlure.

[–] culpritus@hexbear.net 37 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Are bicycles autistic now?

sicko-biker

[–] NephewAlphaBravo@hexbear.net 33 points 2 days ago (1 children)

what level of autism unlocks no-clipping your legs through your seat?

[–] TerrificBeanOnOwl@hexbear.net 28 points 2 days ago

It says autism score 0.93 next to the bicycle so probably around that level

[–] UmmmCheckPlease@hexbear.net 19 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I wanna tag myself as “structured disorder” aka putting effort into being a fucking menace

[–] Ildsaye@hexbear.net 4 points 1 day ago

Structured Disorder gets the Validation goods stonks-up

[–] SorosFootSoldier@hexbear.net 31 points 2 days ago (2 children)

well ysee here the problem with yer brain son is y've got that nonconsensual frymblal in there. That's bad. we're going to have to inject some woke into you now to get those consent levels up

[–] RobotToaster@mander.xyz 16 points 1 day ago

RELU DROP-OUT Totalbottl, REMCH N

[–] lurker_supreme@hexbear.net 28 points 2 days ago

Ha that kid's autism score is only .93. What a noob

[–] Florn@hexbear.net 22 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Tag yourself, I'm Relu Drop-Out

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[–] LeeeroooyJeeenkiiins@hexbear.net 21 points 2 days ago (1 children)

what if AI has found out the super secret cause of autism and we just simply do not understand it? are frymbial and fexcectorn levels made up nonsense, or have we simply yet to perceive them for ourselves? quick, someone ask the LLM to be smarter and tell us the truth

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[–] witty_username@feddit.nl 20 points 1 day ago

Jfc npg has just given up hasn't it. Nat comms has gone downhill, the alphafold 3 debacle was shameless, now this

[–] KuroXppi@hexbear.net 12 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I love to have my legs disappear then reappear through table

[–] TheModerateTankie@hexbear.net 16 points 1 day ago

If you score high on the fryrmbial scale you can phase through solid objects.

[–] SchillMenaker@hexbear.net 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I genuinely hope that China won't allow shit like this when they're running the show.

[–] insurgentrat@hexbear.net 19 points 1 day ago

The researcher is from China, there is absolutely no reason to believe that lazy fraud is a function of American empire.

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