Oh,
What a Tangled Web We Ply
When
We Try to Cheat Using AI
By DG (with some invaluable help from SashaQ)
Yesterday I stumbled across an item on X/Twitter that had
all the academic research folk talking. It seems that some less-than-honest
researchers, who would remain nameless (because lawsuits), had submitted a
plagiarised paper to a journal, who also preferred to remain nameless (because
well-deserved embarrassment), who failed to catch the many egregious errors in
it…
…until it, in essence, swore at them. More precisely, it
used a bizarrely inappropriate expression, especially for a chemistry paper. I
mean, what were we supposed to think when the researchers claimed that '2 mL of
the mass killing of an ethnic group was opposed to 20 mL of the skin sample
and…'?
This, folks, is how we found out that people sometimes
plagiarise papers. Which other people try to detect by running
plagiarism-detecting software. Which in turn leads to
plagiarism-detecting-fooling software that substitutes synonyms designed to
fool the research-paper cops. It's an escalation of truly Cold War proportions.
Which apparently leads to what the science folks are now
calling 'tortured phrases'. I should think so. Any phrase that's been through
the mill that many times should qualify for representation by Amnesty
International.
Now, the liquid that was described as a 'mass killing of an
ethnic group' turned out to be, in the original work…a 'final solution'.
Let us pause for a moment to contemplate a future in which
science papers are written by computers, to be read by computers, using
programs whose code is written by computers. While the rest of us go fishing,
if there's any water left.
Bibliographic
Reference
(because
of course I looked this up)
Quiz
What Does It All Mean?
Newspeak 101
SashaQ helped me find these tortured phrases.
Can you guess what the original phrase was before
'machine intelligence' got to it?
Answers tomorrow.
1. torment executioners
2. haze figuring
3. flag to commotion
4. irregular esteem
5. attractive field
6. backlash combination
7. response book
8. counterfeit consciousness
Quote
of the Day
Julie Kahan on Twitter:
Just remember, if you’re not part of the solution,
you're part of the precipitate!
Rustic
Beauty Moment
It's Brown-Eyed Susan Time
Video:
More Duck News
Water, Water Everywhere
Mrs Hoggett: One of the baby ducks got out and we
chased it all over the yard in the rain. He went back into the ducks' yard all
by himself and then I put him in the pen. We got soaked and muddy.
This entertaining report, alas, was not captured on video. But you can see
the baby ducks and mama duck outside, plus some pretty lady mallards swimming.
kthxbai, Dmitri Gheorgheni, Editor
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