An incident occurred in an overseas scientific journal where a paper containing incorrect text and pictures generated by artificial intelligence (AI) was published and deleted. This paper was posted on social media and was ridiculed by many researchers.
Enterprise Beat reported on the sixteenth (local time) that a paper published by researchers at China's Xi'an Jiaotong University and Xi'an Hongyu Hospital within the scientific journal 'Frontiers of Cell and Developmental Biology' was identified as problematic on social media and was eventually withdrawn.
In keeping with this, this paper on mammalian testes and sperm was published online on the thirteenth. Afterwards, X (Twitter) continued to indicate that there have been problems with the illustrations included within the paper. Particularly, there may be a basic mistake in writing 'proteins', which suggests proteins, as 'protemns'.
In response, fellow researchers criticized the image, mentioning that it was an AI-generated picture and saying something absurd had happened. A researcher named Veera Rajagopal said, “Someone wrote a paper using ‘Dali’, and the absurd thing happened that the journal published it.” As well as, researcher Karim Kara identified, “That is what happened ultimately. It’s ridiculous and even dangerous.”
As criticism continued, the journal eventually deleted the paper.
Via “It was an incredible assist in correcting this,” he said on his website. At the identical time, he said on his website, “Concerns have been raised concerning the numbers generated by AI after publication. This paper doesn’t meet the journal's editorial and scientific standards. Subsequently, we’re withdrawing the paper. “He said.
Enterprise Beat said it had contacted all of the authors, editors, and editor-in-chief of the paper to ask for the total story. A reply has not yet been received.
A representative example of a scientific paper becoming an issue because of AI is the ‘co-authorship’ issue.
In a paper published in a medical journal in 2022, the name of 'ChatGPT' was listed as certainly one of the 12 authors, causing controversy. On the time, famous journals akin to Nature and Science stated that generative AI didn’t meet the standards for authorship. Moreover, the International Society for Machine Learning (ICML) also announced a ban on writing scientific papers using AI tools akin to ChatGPT.
Nevertheless, there are virtually no known cases like this one where a paper was written using generated AI content and caused controversy.
Enterprise Beat commented, “A famous journal with greater than 114,000 citations has had credibility problems because of this error,” adding, “It raises questions on what number of more papers were actually written in this manner.”
Reporter Lim Da-jun ydj@aitimes.com