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nbcnews on Instagram: "A network of fake academic journals masquerading as legitimate publications has published more than a hundred AI-generated papers i…" A network of fake academic journals masquerading as legitimate publications has published more than a hundred AI-generated papers in recent months, in some cases using the names of real professors at top universities without their knowledge.Vasant Dhar, a very real professor of data science and AI at New York University, was one of the academics caught in the slop onslaught.After one of Dhar’s colleagues reached out to him about an odd new article listed under his name in the International Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research (IJAIR), he looked it up and concluded that the article was generated by AI and had somehow attached his name to the text."It’s really clever, because it looks like this alleged paper of mine is taken from and based off of a chapter from my recent book,” he said.Several professors say the fiasco is a warning about the future of scientific knowledge.More at the link in bio. https://www.instagram.com/p/DY0eYEfiRU3/