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Research papers using "kidney disappointment" instead of "kidney failure"

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Re: Research papers using "kidney disappointment" instead of "kidney failure"

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Post by pseudohadamard »

ivan_gammel wrote: post #56
stared wrote: post #20

Nothing beats when, in a chemistry paper, AI paraphrased „the final solution” into „the mass killing of an ethnic group”. “Subsequently, 1 mL of the mass killing of an ethnic group was opposed to 20 mL of the skin sample and unprotected to light for 7 min.” From: https://bsky.app/profile/forbetterscience.bsky.social/post/3...

This doesn‘t sound like AI. LLMs do not use dictionary definitions for translating a paper this way. It does look like some translation engine like Google Translate or worse, maybe with some text obfuscator trying to avoid plagiarism detection.

Either that or it was an AI trained on conversations between parents and teenagers.

Re: Research papers using "kidney disappointment" instead of "kidney failure"

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Alifatisk wrote: post #26
stared wrote: post #20

Nothing beats when, in a chemistry paper, AI paraphrased „the final solution” into „the mass killing of an ethnic group”. “Subsequently, 1 mL of the mass killing of an ethnic group was opposed to 20 mL of the skin sample and unprotected to light for 7 min.” From: https://bsky.app/profile/forbetterscience.bsky.social/post/3...

How about "lactose bigotry" instead of "lactose intolerance" https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=%22lactose+bigotry%22

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Re: Research papers using "kidney disappointment" instead of "kidney failure"

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Post by tdeck »

avalys wrote: post #54

Most of these are authored by what appear to be non-native English speakers. So, the most likely explanation is a translation issue. In engineering literature from Russia from the 1960s, one sometimes finds references to a ‘water goat’ in papers that are otherwise about heavy machinery. It turns out this is a twice-translated rendition of ‘hydraulic ram’.

The classic example of this

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_as_She_Is_Spoke

> It is widely believed that Carolino could not speak English and that an unknown French–English dictionary was used to translate the earlier Portuguese–French phrase book O novo guia da conversação em francês e português, written by José da Fonseca.

It became so popular for comedic reasons in the English-speaking world that it was reprinted many times and reviewed by Mark Twain.

Re: Research papers using "kidney disappointment" instead of "kidney failure"

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Post by ssivark »

supriyo-biswas wrote: post #13

This is a really confusing one, since neither the "AI generated paper" nor "translation issue" explanations hold. I found [1], created all the way back in 2021, which seems to first introduce this "kidney disappointment" term, and I would have to assume that perhaps the authors preferred to translate it from their native language. LLMs did not exist in their current form in 2021, so couldn't have used it to write dow…

Perhaps the authors might have originally been going for "rejection" (of transplant) which then got translated into "disappointment".

Re: Research papers using "kidney disappointment" instead of "kidney failure"

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Post by Bombthecat »

userbinator wrote: post #121
ivan_gammel wrote: post #56

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This doesn‘t sound like AI. LLMs do not use dictionary definitions for translating a paper this way. It does look like some translation engine like Google Translate or worse, maybe with some text obfuscator trying to avoid plagiarism detection.

Yes, this looks like something which predates AI by several decades: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Article_spinning

Maybe deepl gone wild?

Re: Research papers using "kidney disappointment" instead of "kidney failure"

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Post by pjc50 »

yieldcrv wrote: post #93
stared wrote: post #20

Nothing beats when, in a chemistry paper, AI paraphrased „the final solution” into „the mass killing of an ethnic group”. “Subsequently, 1 mL of the mass killing of an ethnic group was opposed to 20 mL of the skin sample and unprotected to light for 7 min.” From: https://bsky.app/profile/forbetterscience.bsky.social/post/3...

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.. what?

Re: Research papers using "kidney disappointment" instead of "kidney failure"

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Post by pjc50 »

bombcar wrote: post #24
stared wrote: post #20

Nothing beats when, in a chemistry paper, AI paraphrased „the final solution” into „the mass killing of an ethnic group”. “Subsequently, 1 mL of the mass killing of an ethnic group was opposed to 20 mL of the skin sample and unprotected to light for 7 min.” From: https://bsky.app/profile/forbetterscience.bsky.social/post/3...

I've heard of microdosing Hitler but this is a whole new level of clbuttic.

Titrating the Hitler particles out of solution.

(remarkably, the phrase "particle of Hitler in every bourgeoise" comes from Trotsky rather than being original internet slang)

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