But the subject matter is not what captured attention.
The study authors included several images that were fantastically and grotesquely incorrect.
The article wasretracted on February 16, three days after it was published.
A very unscientific AI-generated diagram of a rat.Illustration:Guo et al., Front. Cell Dev. Biol. 2024
Yet the problematic illustrations made it to print.
One of the papersreviewers told Vicethat the imagery was not their responsibility.
To date, the paper has been downloaded over 24,000 times and been viewed 358,673 times.
The work certainly accrued more attention than it would have with scientifically accurate illustrations, AI-generated or otherwise.
The rat genitals are clearly anatomically incorrect, even if youve never investigated a rodents nether regions.
But that is to say: AIs presence in scientific publishing isnt going anywhere.
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