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Scientists aghast at bizarre AI rat with huge genitals in peer-reviewed article (arstechnica.com)

submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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It's unclear how such egregiously bad images made it through peer-review.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (4 children)

Peer review depends on the seriousness of the reviewers. Sometimes they’re too busy to give af, sometimes they’re fucking dumb, sometimes they’re deferential to authority figures who they know to be wrong. Same as everyone else. 90% of the scientific literature is irreproducible shit.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 8 months ago (1 children)

And so are 90% of statistics

[–] [email protected] 11 points 8 months ago

37.645% of all statistics are made up on the spot.

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