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  • peter purgathoferpeterpur@hci.social
    Mar 24, 2025, 9:11 AM

    »advanced nanovaccines for cancer immunotherapy« by nanasaheb thorat, a book published by springer, contains the phrase »As an AI language model« on page 25.

    this raises a couple of significant questions: is this book still trustworthy, if it was written using an AI that we know produces text containing »alternative facts«. what is the actual harm such a book can cause? what are the quality assurance measures at springer actually worth?

    btw. this book costs $100+.

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  • peter purgathoferpeterpur@hci.social
    Mar 24, 2025, 4:14 PM

    i would surmise that this is only the tip of the iceberg.

    given that scientific publishers have mostly given up on quality assurance measure that are not based on the free (=exploitative) work of scientists, we are diving head over heels into a crisis of scientific publishing – a crisis that has been looming for some time now ( liebertpub.com/doi/10.1089/ees ) and has only been accelerated by the lure of genAI.

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  • Eli Roberson (he/him)thatdnaguy@genomic.social
    Mar 24, 2025, 11:54 AM

    @peterpur if a factual book was written by a large language model, it isn't a question. It isn't trustworthy. LLMs have no concept of factual reality.

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  • MethylzeroMethylzero@mast.hpc.social
    Mar 24, 2025, 12:50 PM

    @peterpur "Dr. Thorat has published more than 135 international publications, including 9 books, ~110 peer-reviewed journal articles, and 25 book chapters"
    I cannot help but wonder if he outsourced editing this book to a Masters/PhD student, perhaps a postdoc, who isn't credited. Would not be the first time in academia...

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  • peter purgathoferpeterpur@hci.social
    Mar 24, 2025, 2:48 PM

    @Methylzero given the practice on display here, it raises suspicion whether his other publications were also written by underpaid and uncredited students.

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  • RoblRob_l@mas.to
    Mar 24, 2025, 1:08 PM

    @peterpur in the bin, it hasn't been proofread, let alone peer reviewed.

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  • RobJLowRobJLow@mathstodon.xyz
    Mar 24, 2025, 1:35 PM

    @peterpur I guess Springer don't send out book manuscripts to reviewers any more. Or else the reviewers are doing their job as thoroughly as the authors 😬

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  • peter purgathoferpeterpur@hci.social
    Mar 24, 2025, 2:29 PM

    @RobJLow it would still be their duty to check the quality of books they publish, or else they gamble away the little rest of reputation they have.

    it is a symptom of a publishing culture where a publisher can earn all the money without doing any of the work.

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