The editing too. I worked as an editor for academic journals and newspapers about 25 years ago, and nothing like these "blatant" examples would get anywhere near print. We'd remove clichéd language too. Everyone seems to have stopped proof reading and editing.

The academic paper system has been in trouble for decades. But man, the last 10-20 years seems to have reached such an abysmal state that even the general public is hearing about it more and more with news like this, along with the university scandals last year.

So, not very meticulous?

It's not the reviewer's fault! When they asked ChatGPT to peer review the paper it found nothing wrong.

Things are very people specific as to what gets through some Journals are known to have lax review but high publication costs. These "predatory" journals and other nepotism stuff has been an issue for a while. The scientific community wants to tackle these issues but it's been hard to make any real progress. Covid politics and now AI have really not helped.

Speaking with some family I still have over there, to hear them tell it at least, it's lingering generational trauma originating from the Great Leap Forward.

Doing the "right thing" at that point in China's history got you killed. Millions died in the name of collectivization. To survive, people did what they had to: they lied, smuggled, stole, and scammed.

The honest died, the dishonest lived, and so dishonesty became enshrined as a national virtue.

Not too different from capitalism in the west I suppose, since no one good and honest becomes rich. But at least the poor aren't dying in the millions yet, so people still accept the lie that hard work and integrity will result in success.

It’s sadly something that happens anywhere you get incentives and pressure to cheat, https://www.npr.org/2023/06/26/1184289296/harvard-professor-dishonesty-francesca-gino

That was another AI-related 'mishap':
https://www.vice.com/en/article/dy3jbz/scientific-journal-frontiers-publishes-ai-generated-rat-with-gigantic-penis-in-worrying-incident

you ever seen rat balls? they are huge.

If they are so lazy that they just spam out u edited ChatGPT output, how many of their “findings” were just made up over the years before that?

This is the actual story here. I mean these research centers didn't spawn into existence with the rise of AI. They've been publishing works for years, often decades, often with the goal to spread propaganda. Anything that either makes the CCP look good or any other nation look bad is fair game. Let's just remember the batshit insane propaganda they kept releasing during the pandemic, mostly inside China. At some points they claimed the virus came from Italy, the US, Australia, Sweden or pretty much any country that spoke out against China at the time. They dragged 'scientists' in front of cameras to claim how the pandemic was imported via packages from Canada at one point. Meanwhile doctors in Wuhan who tried to warn the world in late 2019 got silenced and vanished.

Long story short, to no one's surprise ChatGPT in research publications is just a symptom of something much worse. Papers from certain places were never trustworthy and the use of LLMs just shows how bad it has been all along.

Academic fraud is in no way a thing that is limited or even disproportionately prevalent in China. Perhaps the flavors of it are biased to one form or another in different cultures, but don't mistake that for more or less fraud in that culture. Perhaps you notice more from China simply because there are simply more Chinese people in the world than any other nation behind Indian people in India.

Just don't let it draw any mouse anatomy

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Do you think every paper writer would comply? Do you think that the actually problematic writers, like those cutting so many corners that they directly paste ChatGPT results into their paper, would comply?