PREDATORY PUBLISHING OUT OF CONTROL—FUELED BY AI Help me out here (a short 🧵) A clearly chatbot-generated short review: “𝘔𝘰𝘭𝘦𝘤𝘶𝘭𝘢𝘳 𝘔𝘦𝘤𝘩𝘢𝘯𝘪𝘴𝘮𝘴 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘐𝘮𝘮𝘶𝘯𝘦 𝘙𝘦𝘴𝘱𝘰𝘯𝘴𝘦𝘴 𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘗𝘢𝘵𝘩𝘰𝘨𝘦𝘯𝘦𝘴𝘪𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘗𝘯𝘦𝘶𝘮𝘰𝘯𝘪𝘢: 𝘐𝘯𝘴𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵𝘴 𝘪𝘯𝘵𝘰 𝘉𝘢𝘤𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘪a𝘢𝘭 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘝𝘪𝘳𝘢𝘭 𝘐𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘢𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘴” has appeared online AND NAMES ME AS THE AUTHOR - ThreadSky

nizet.bsky.social • 20 days ago

PREDATORY PUBLISHING OUT OF CONTROL—FUELED BY AI

Help me out here

(a short 🧵)

A clearly chatbot-generated short review: “𝘔𝘰𝘭𝘦𝘤𝘶𝘭𝘢𝘳 𝘔𝘦𝘤𝘩𝘢𝘯𝘪𝘴𝘮𝘴 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘐𝘮𝘮𝘶𝘯𝘦 𝘙𝘦𝘴𝘱𝘰𝘯𝘴𝘦𝘴 𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘗𝘢𝘵𝘩𝘰𝘨𝘦𝘯𝘦𝘴𝘪𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘗𝘯𝘦𝘶𝘮𝘰𝘯𝘪𝘢: 𝘐𝘯𝘴𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵𝘴 𝘪𝘯𝘵𝘰 𝘉𝘢𝘤𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘪a𝘢𝘭 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘝𝘪𝘳𝘢𝘭 𝘐𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘢𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘴”

has appeared online

AND NAMES ME AS THE AUTHOR

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nizet.bsky.social•20 days ago

Here is the weblink where I am listed as a member of the “Department of Pharmacology” at the “University of Nevada” with the very official sounding contact email:

“[email protected]”

https://www.omicsonline.org/open-access/molecular-mechanisms-and-immune-responses-in-the-pathogenesis-of-pneumonia-insights-into-bacterial-and-viral-interactions-134527.html

nizet.bsky.social•20 days ago

Since our lab has worked on host-pathogen interactions for 28 years and often uses lung infection models, either the chatbot was trained on our papers, or alternatively, it used general web sources to come up with a short article, then asked the AI tool to pick a scientist active in the field

nizet.bsky.social•20 days ago

Even though it is simply a AI-generated stream of gobbledygook about pneumonia with no experiments, it has a “Results” section

nizet.bsky.social•20 days ago

The references, which link to actual pubmed abstracts of genuine articles, have nothing to do with pneumonia but rather topics like lupus and zoonotic pox viruses

nizet.bsky.social•20 days ago

All brought to you by the good people at OMICS International who own and operate“more than 500 peer-reviewed journals”

So do I

(A) just ignore this?
(B) do something?

If you chose the latter, what do you suggest I do?

Any replies with some guidance or cynical humor welcome

jacopobertolotti.com•20 days ago

Talk with the legal team at your University. They might be able to send some very threatening letters to the publisher.

lawdishu.bsky.social•20 days ago

Email editorial team and ask if you can have an APC discount…

bgretjd.bsky.social•20 days ago

Wow. So this got past reviewers and then published despite being a word salad. Time for a very frank conversation with the editor in chief, complaint to the publisher, and very wide publication of this screwup. Clearly this journal is not worth the paper (electrons) it's printed on.

bdesan.bsky.social•20 days ago

An AI generated book came out with my name on it a few months ago (don't google it, I don't want it showing up when people look up my name haha). We sent a strongly worded email to the "publisher" and they stopped printing it. Now it's listed as "unavailable title" :/

breakliquid.bsky.social•20 days ago

I am going to email that email and invite them to write a review article on “gold polymers in modern medicine”

breakliquid.bsky.social•20 days ago

😱

bgretjd.bsky.social•20 days ago

Wow. So this got submitted, and presumably got past reviewers, despite being a word salad, without raising any questions? Time to have a serious talk with the editors of this journal.

catanita.bsky.social•20 days ago

they're probably bots also

kycp.bsky.social•20 days ago

This is truly alarming and shocking.😭 I hope this issue gets resolved quickly.

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