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It's the "peer-reviewed" part that should be raising eyebrows, not the AI-generated part. How the gibberish images were generated is secondary to the fact that the peer reviewers just waved the obvious nonsense through without even the most cursory inspection.
In another article, it said that one of the reviewers did being up the nonsense images, but he was just completely ignored. Which is an equally big problem.
It's how this publisher works. They make it insanely difficult for reviewers to reject a submission.
It's in this article.
I enjoy reading between the lines. "Had the rat penis not gone viral, the paper would not have been retracted"
We're in that interim period where people don't understand the technology at all but still think it's capable of anything, so even people who absolutely should know better are going to be misusing it.
Sokal affair but with more rat ballz