Rather, they are the inaccurate and grotesque depictions of rat testes, signaling pathways, and stem cells.
In other words, many eyes supposedly reviewed this work before the images were published.
To the researchers credit, they state in the paper that images in the article were generated by Midjourney.
Image:Guo et al., Front. Cell Dev. Biol. 2024
The AI-generated imagery certainly seems to fall under those categories.
The rat image is glaringly wrong, even if youve never cut open a rats genitals.
So how did the wacky images get published?
Figure 2 in the paper is a diagram of the JAK-STAT signaling pathway, or at least it’s meant to be.Illustration:Guo et al., Front. Cell Dev. Biol. 2024
Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
The OpenAI text generator ChatGPT is proficient enough to getfarkakte research past the supposedly discerning eyes of reviewers.
Crucially, those study authors warned, AI-generated articles could cause a scientific integrity crisis.
Figure 3 supposedly shows relationships between the pathway and aspects of the stem cells.Image:Guo et al., Front. Cell Dev. Biol. 2024
It seems like that crisis may be well underway.
The increased popularity of AI hascausedscientifically inaccurate imageryto make its way into scientific publications and news articles.
Sometimes, a paper that gets through peer-review is merely funny.
Other times, its a sign that paper mills are churning out so-called research that has no scientific merit.
In 2021, Springer Nature wasforced to retract 44 papersin the Arabian Journal of Geosciences for being total nonsense.
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