Appall and scorn ripped through scientists’ social media networks Thursday as several egregiously bad AI-generated figures circulated from a peer-reviewed article recently published in a reputable journal. Those figures—which the authors acknowledge in the article’s text were made by Midjourney—are all uninterpretable. They contain gibberish text and, most strikingly, one includes an image of a rat with grotesquely large and bizarre genitals, as well as a text label of “dck.”

A dck pck, if you will.

Count me among the “some scientists online” who “questioned whether the text was also AI-generated”. I mean, it’s a disjointed mess. Right off, we get this:

The term “stem cell” was first coined in 1901 by Regaud

Um, no. But if that could be taken for human error, what about a sentence like this:

They were physically sheared and digested with a solution of DnaseI, hyaluronidase, collagenase, and trypsin using a two-step enzymatic digestion method in which the digestive enzymes included DnaseI, hyaluronidase, collagenase, and trypsin.

Just a bit before that, the text does a swerve into what sounds like a specific experiment, which doesn’t fit with its surroundings and is very strange in a review article. My guess is the whole thing was made by stitching together LLM responses.

The publisher, Frontiers Media, is not exactly held in high regard overall.

  • @bitofhope
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    319 months ago

    Here’s the pic in its full glory.

    AI generated illustration of a rat with a massive schlong in cross-section and misplaced and misspelled captions: "sentollc stem cells", "Dissilced", "dislocctal stem ells" with the first letter s mirrored, "Rat", "Testtomcels", "dck", "Retat", "iollotte sserotgomar cell", "Spermatocial syem cells", and "Sterrm cells" with the last letters smeared together into some kind of quad-hump letter m

    Tag yourself, I’m Testtomcels

    • @bitofhope
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      209 months ago

      An AI illustration of something vaguely biotechnological with lots of incomprehensible labels. Looks a bit like a circuit board.

      This one from the same is also funny

      • @selfA
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        209 months ago

        all leftists care about is propronounization stat protemns, translocation, and posting on DMmer

      • @acausal_masochist
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        109 months ago

        Reminds me of the plastic placemats I ate off of as a toddler.

    • @selfA
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      129 months ago

      di>locttal stem ells was my father’s name. please, call me dck

      like fuck can you imagine looking at nothing but results like these and believing “yep these are the glimmerings of AGI, what a revolutionary technology”

    • Steve
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      109 months ago

      this will be in a future gallery exhibition about the beginning of the Art Cynique movement

    • @sc_griffith
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      79 months ago

      bond voice I’m retat. rat retat.