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   John Overholt (overholt@glammr.us)'s status on Sunday, 16-Feb-2025 00:51:39 JST John Overholt

   • Calishat

   Why is the nonsense phrase “vegetative electron microscopy” turning up in fake scientific papers? Add two-column formatting to the list of things AI doesn’t understand. https://retractionwatch.com/2025/02/10/vegetative-electron-microscopy-fingerprint-paper-mill/
   Via @Researchbuzz

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     Cheerios de Bergerac (sexybenfranklin@smores.town)'s status on Sunday, 16-Feb-2025 01:17:32 JST Cheerios de Bergerac

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     @overholt the line "They are taking a piss, without even pulling their pants down, aren't they?" is an all timer of a quote sting

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     Rich Felker (dalias@hachyderm.io)'s status on Sunday, 16-Feb-2025 01:22:36 JST Rich Felker

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     • Calishat

     @overholt @researchbuzz Wow, the comments on that are so utterly idiotic. A bunch of apologist reply guys who can't tell the image is the potentially misplagiarized training source and not one of the AI-slop papers that pulled from it.