Reported Emergence of 'Vegetative Electron Microscopy' in Scientific Papers Traced to Purported AI Training Data Contamination
Description
Researchers reportedly traced the appearance of the nonsensical phrase "vegetative electron microscopy" in scientific papers to contamination in AI training data. Testing indicated that large language models such as GPT-3, GPT-4, and Claude 3.5 may reproduce the term. The error allegedly originated from a digitization mistake that merged unrelated words during scanning, and a later translation error between Farsi and English.
Actors
Alleged Deployers
- openai
- anthropic
- researchers
- scientific-authors
Alleged Developers
- openai
- anthropic
Harmed Parties
- researchers
- scientific-authors
- scientific-publishers
- peer-reviewers
- scholars
- readers-of-scientific-publications
- scientific-record
- academic-integrity
Classification
Risk Domain
MisinformationRisk Subdomain
3.1. False or misleading information
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