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The term "vegetative electron microscopy" keeps showing up in scientific papers
Earlier this year, scientists discovered a peculiar term appearing in published papers: "vegetative electron microscopy".
This phrase, which sounds technical but is actually nonsense, has become a "digital fossil" – an error preserved and reinforced in artificial intelligence(AI) systems that is nearly impossible to remove from our knowledge repositories. The case of vegetative electron microscopy offers a troubling glimpse into how AI systems can perpetuate and amplify errors throughout our collective knowledge. The large language models behind modern AI chatbots such as ChatGPT are "trained" on huge amounts of text to predict the likely next word in a sequence.
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