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26 July 2024
Government Has Just Declared War on Free Speech
26 July 2024
by Toby Young
Editors of scientific journals are already being duped into publishing fake research papers written by AIs. But with the rapid improvement in AIs, the problem is about to get much worse. What are they doing about it?
Once more, a 'peer-reviewed' journal has to retract a bunch of papers because they are literally nonsense – generated by a computer algorithm. Why aren't publishers getting on top of this discreditable problem?
We hear a lot about misinformation being put about by non-scientists, but nothing about fraudulent papers published in scientific journals. Former Google software engineer Mike Hearn investigates for the Daily Sceptic.
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