A biologist was shocked to find his name was mentioned several times in a scientific paper, which references papers that simply don't exist.

A biologist was shocked to find his name was mentioned several times in a scientific paper, which references papers that simply don’t exist.

  • daredevil@kbin.social
    13·
    2 years ago

    Assuming this is carelessness, this just goes to show that working in academia isn’t an indicator of critical thinking skills IMO

    • average650@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      2 years ago

      Honestly, I bet he has the skills, he just didn’t use them because he didn’t care, or is overworked, or for whatever reason.

      • daredevil@kbin.social
        4·
        2 years ago

        You make a valid point, and there are certainly more considerations than my original reply would lead one to believe. Cheers.

      • Kerfuffle@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        3·
        2 years ago

        A lot of people don’t understand the limitations/weaknesses of AI. The carelessness was probably more in not actually learning about the tool he was relying on (and just assuming it was reliable information).

        • T156@lemmy.worldEnglish
          2·
          2 years ago

          It’s like the aeroplane lawyer case some time ago. People treat the computer as an arbiter of truth, and/or think checking is just asking the chatbot “Did you use a real citation for this?”.