Here's the pic in its full glory.

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According to researchers referenced in a 2015 blog post quoted by Allison and James Kaufman in the 2018 book Pseudoscience: The Conspiracy Against Science, "Frontiers has used an in-house journals management software that does not give reviewers the option to recommend the rejection of manuscripts" and the "system is setup to make it almost impossible to reject papers". source

Ah yes, pear reviw.

And it's been retracted:

Following publication, concerns were raised regarding the nature of its AI-generated figures. The article does not meet the standards of editorial and scientific rigor for Frontiers in Cell and Development Biology; therefore, the article has been retracted.

This retraction was approved by the Chief Executive Editor of Frontiers. Frontiers would like to thank the concerned readers who contacted us regarding the published article.

A dck pck, if you will.

I am so glad it wasn’t just my brain that went there

I read an article about this on mastodon earlier, but somehow it seems like it took a long time for anyone to read the text of the paper and realize that’s garbage too

I'm not sure the "frontiers in" journals are all that reputable.

To be fair though rodents can have pretty huge balls. Like dragging on the ground behind them huge.

Frontiers Media is the second entry of the "don't cite this BS" list for Wikipedia.

Funny, when I ask chatgpt to draw a rationalist, the same thing pops up.

New ppb for Hexbear users?

This is the best summary I could come up with:

Appall and scorn ripped through scientists' social media networks Thursday as several egregiously bad AI-generated figures circulated from a peer-reviewed article recently published in a reputable journal.

But, looking closer only reveals more flaws, including the labels "dissilced," Stemm cells," "iollotte sserotgomar," and "dck."

Many researchers expressed surprise and dismay that such a blatantly bad AI-generated image could pass through the peer-review system and whatever internal processing is in place at the journal.

One scientific integrity expert questioned whether it provide an overly complicated explanation of "how to make a donut with colorful sprinkles."

The image is supposed to provide visual representations of how the signaling pathway from Figure 2 regulates the biological properties of spermatogonial stem cells.

As such, research journals have recently set new authorship guidelines for AI-generated text to try to address the problem.

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