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  1. @pokitty

    The failures of LLMs are largely due to their love of #vegetativeelectronmicroscopy but also the public's widespread misconception, even among such as Sam Altman himself, that these gaggles of gates are 'intelligent'. They are stochastic machines, like Mozart's dice piece, great for selecting what you don't expect, but it can only statistically select from the options it was given, in the limited dimensions specified. OCR? sure, mostly. Drive my car? Not a chance!

  2. The use of AI to create bogus scientific papers is becoming an increasingly serious problem, researchers say, threatening life-saving medical research as well as the integrity of academic publishing.

    computing.co.uk/news/2025/ai/a

    #technews #vegetativeelectronmicroscopy #ai #fraud #elsevier #springer

  3. Retraction Watch: As a nonsense phrase of shady provenance makes the rounds, Elsevier defends its use. “The phrase was so strange it would have stood out even to a non-scientist. Yet ‘vegetative electron microscopy’ had already made it past reviewers and editors at several journals when a Russian chemist and scientific sleuth noticed the odd wording in a now-retracted paper in Springer […]

    https://rbfirehose.com/2025/02/13/retraction-watch-as-a-nonsense-phrase-of-shady-provenance-makes-the-rounds-elsevier-defends-its-use/