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Professor Caught Using ChatGPT When Scientific Paper Was Full of Errors (futurism.com)

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A biologist was shocked to find his name was mentioned several times in a scientific paper, which references papers that simply don't exist.

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[-] Womble@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

FWIW, last author is not automatically most senior. That is the way some fields do it, but others do it strictly by amount contributed to the paper. I have been both first and last author on different papers during my first post-doc.

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