> For instance, observers have noted the rise of “tortured phrases” used to evade automated integrity software, such as “counterfeit consciousness” instead of “artificial intelligence”.<p>This has been a thing for years in the social media / podcast space. Unalive, bubbling yourself, vitamins, pdf files etc. in lieu of forbidden words because of the holy advertiser money.
There is an epidemic of scientific fraud in Iranian academic circles. Not that academic fraud is isolated to Iran but it’s got a higher prevalence there<p><a href="https://www.iranintl.com/en/202306138216" rel="nofollow">https://www.iranintl.com/en/202306138216</a>
Similar to how cartographers embed false information into maps to catch plagiarists, I expect a deliberate practice such as this to proliferate to catch specific sources used by AI.<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fictitious_entry" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fictitious_entry</a>
I understand why AI would find and use the weird phrase (vegetative electron microscopy) if it's used on the Internet. But I'm confused about the term being used in scientific papers? Does that mean the scientific papers were written by (or with the help of) AI systems? And the folks writing the scientific papers didn't proof read their papers?
So papers printed in double columns are scanned as one column?<p>I think that’s the far greater issue, and that there would be many other issues. Maybe this case is a rare exception but surely the text would be converted from a two column format to a single body before being processed.<p>The joys of hindsight.
It reminds me of this from 16 years ago: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18374359">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18374359</a><p>I wonder how long it will be before AI regurgitates that hilarity.
But many of the existing papers with that phrase also happen to be from Iran. Interesting<p><a href="https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C5&q=%22vegetative+electron%22&btnG=" rel="nofollow">https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C5&q=%22v...</a>