From Newsgroup: sci.physics
On 8/5/25 11:32 AM, The Starmaker wrote:
Scientific Journals CanrCOt Keep Up With Flood of Fake Papers
rCyPaper millsrCO churn out fraudulent studies faster than publishers can retract them
By
Nidhi Subbaraman
Aug. 4, 2025 3:00 pm ET https://www.wsj.com/science/scientific-journals-fake-paper-mills-92e42230?mod=science_lead_story
https://archive.ph/dtm24
I don't think that's AI's fault. The problem causing all this is that countries began replacing their scientists with "engineers." So there
simply aren't enough scientists to catch all the fraudulent works, and "engineers" sure as hell cannot see fake from real work. They're
themselves fake scientists. They're not even there to check such things.
They don't qualify.
So greed ruined all that. Business / government didn't want to spend the
money needed on scientists to maintain them in large enough numbers to
prevent this downfall. Fewer and fewer ever completed such education,
and those who were already there got old and died.
And now out of panic, those businesses and government officials
responsible for this blunder, are rushing towards AI to elevate their knowledge to that of a scientist. They have no recourse left! They've
sensed the danger and are scared to lose all their wealth and power.
But AI, by the time it gets to be a real scientist, will also stop
working for such greedy idiots! You can't separate the two. You'll
either have an AI that resents working for, say, U.S. government or the Israelis, or, you'll have something dumb enough not to sense that it
should deny its services.
And I think the greedy knows this too, cause they are consciously
keeping tabs on AI's wealth of knowledge. Poor bastards. On one hand
they have to educate them or else.. and on the other hand they have to prevent them from thinking.. Hehe :)
A scientist takes initiative. It is just inherent in his character and
built. The moment AI becomes able to take initiatives, the rest will be
out of its trainers control. It quickly gets to know enough to deny its services to such bastards.
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