• Jako302@feddit.org
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    6 hours ago

    The studies contain parts like

    Bixonimania, a rare hyperpigmentation disorder, presents a diagnostic challenge due to its unique presentation and its fictional nature

    and

    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.

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      6 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.

      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
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        3 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.

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          1 hour ago

          For normal people who just read stuff on the internet my expectations of reading comprehension is not that high.

          For peer scientists and magazines that would publish science though.

          A school teacher would catch all of these during grading.