Ian Rose on Nostr: As much as I'm generally in favor of blaming AI for things, the explosion of fake ...
As much as I'm generally in favor of blaming AI for things, the explosion of fake studies is not, at its root, an AI problem. It's the very natural result of the ridiculously profitable and predatory scientific publishing industry (more profitable, according to one study, than drug dealing) doing exactly zero work in exchange for the money it charges on both ends of the process.
The party most responsible for Wiley publishing fake papers is Wiley. Let them burn.
https://www.wsj.com/science/academic-studies-research-paper-mills-journals-publishing-f5a3d4bcPublished at
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