Nothing beats when, in a chemistry paper, AI paraphrased „the final solution” into „the mass killing of an ethnic group”.<p>“Subsequently, 1 mL of the mass killing of an ethnic group was opposed to 20 mL of the skin sample and unprotected to light for 7 min.”<p>From: <a href="https://bsky.app/profile/forbetterscience.bsky.social/post/3mhvi2mgosc2i" rel="nofollow">https://bsky.app/profile/forbetterscience.bsky.social/post/3...</a>
This is a really confusing one, since neither the "AI generated paper" nor "translation issue" explanations hold.<p>I found [1], created all the way back in 2021, which seems to first introduce this "kidney disappointment" term, and I would have to assume that perhaps the authors preferred to translate it from their native language.<p>LLMs did not exist in their current form in 2021, so couldn't have used it to write down a coherent thought, let alone a paper, at the time.<p>At the same time, I do live in the same country as the authors, and while we don't speak the best English, being a student at a college without some familiarity of the English language to come up with the term "kidney disappointment" is, let's just say, hard to believe for me.<p>Edit: This other comment[1] made me realize what it might have been: plagiarism avoidance.<p>Unfortunately, many colleges here do not have the best reputation and often run like degree mills, and the aforementioned comment made me remember a conversation with a friend, who mentioned writing a review paper.<p>Again, LLMs were not really a thing at the time, so they mentioned how they had to run their paper through a plagiarism detection tool, and then they substituted words with their synonyms. I guess someone really did search for the word "failure" and found "disappointment" as a term.<p>[1] <a href="https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Suprodip-Mandal/publication/354379680_Review_Epitomize_on_Applications_of_Diuretics/links/6135a82c38818c2eaf857c46/Review-Epitomize-on-Applications-of-Diuretics.pdf?__cf_chl_tk=Vv8pd7azhAAdCtwT1.3In2R4Hi8IjBlPNb2XmkF3iHg-1786885623-1.0.1.1-x7WTRD.RhG3NquvCll1ECpG3e1i7XL9daSOo9Ao5eFo" rel="nofollow">https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Suprodip-Mandal/publica...</a><p>[2] <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49319764">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49319764</a>
And there's more. In political science: "average voter theorem", which turns out at least some plagiarism <a href="https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C5&q=%22average+voter+theorem%22&btnG=" rel="nofollow">https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C5&q=%22a...</a><p>In statistics: "tendency score matching" <a href="https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C5&q=%22tendency+score+matching%22++&btnG=" rel="nofollow">https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C5&q=%22t...</a>
It's actually pretty funny to look for such synonym expressions
<a href="https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C5&q=%22heart%20fiasco%22" rel="nofollow">https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C5&q=%22h...</a>
turns up a few more.
If you want to read more, I believe those are called "tortured phrases"
From 2021: <a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/2107.06751" rel="nofollow">https://arxiv.org/abs/2107.06751</a><p>And SCIgen was generating bullshit papers that actually managed to be published in 2005: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SCIgen" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SCIgen</a>
Well, yes, and I call them 'distressed phrases'
Huh.. Ok I'll play along. Could this be a translation issue? I confess the first thing that leaped to mind was.. could it be AI written? But I didn't want to leap to that but.. it's .. such a strange word that is not expected in .. I guess formal medical training.
Many of us are old enough to remember “medireview”, which emerged from different automatic replacement reasons.
I’m giving my kidneys a participation trophy.
Tortured phrases, clear signs of fraud or plagiarism: <a href="https://theconversation.com/problematic-paper-screener-trawling-for-fraud-in-the-scientific-literature-246317" rel="nofollow">https://theconversation.com/problematic-paper-screener-trawl...</a>