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[–] dgerard@awful.systems 9 points 5 months ago (4 children)
[–] o7___o7@awful.systems 11 points 5 months ago (1 children)

How do people do this without dying of anxiety?

BTW, that last comment on RetractionWatch was grim:

I recently saw a presentation by a job candidate (a PhD with many years experience) who used figures that were clearly AI-generated. They weren’t as funny as this example or the giant rat penis, but certainly fictional and unreal. In and of itself, troubling enough. Worse was that my colleagues involved in the interview didn’t care when I pointed it out.

[–] skillissuer@discuss.tchncs.de 10 points 5 months ago

it's easier if you are a shameless fraud without a shred of integrity

This is also probably why MBAs like it

[–] blakestacey@awful.systems 9 points 5 months ago

2 Giant 2 Rat Penis

[–] skillissuer@discuss.tchncs.de 9 points 5 months ago

ai use case: you can pump out pseudoscience promoting fluff disguised as papers in predatory journals with less effort

[–] V0ldek@awful.systems 8 points 5 months ago

Okay but this is about alkaline water so it's garbage even without the genAI imagery.

It's even by Wu et al., come on, low hanging fruit