Didn't hear about paper mills until today...
Prospective buyers can see the paper’s title, and sometimes its abstracts, as well as the expected ranking in the citation database Scopus of the journal of publication. They then select an author slot, with costs ranging from about US$500 to $3,000. The company promises that titles and abstracts shown online will be “completely changed” for publication. “No one will ever be able to find the manuscript anywhere,” the website declares.
AI is making this kind of scam much easier to perpetrate...
AI is making this kind of scam much easier to perpetrate
It's an arms race: AI will also make it much easier to detect. It all self-balances back to the mean.
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Interesting thought. You don't think at some point one will win the race?
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It being the same method (AI), it can not but always be equally powerful on both sides. It's like with the bitcoin hashing mechanism: the more the machines become capable to break it, the more they become capable of making it difficult to break. Now in the case of bitcoin the hashing method makes sure that, at any level of machine power, it will always be easier to generate than to break. The same will be valid in this case: generating documents consumes much more computing power than indexing them. Wherever information do not matches, it will be thus corrupted and useless. So, to be useful, information must match, and will thus be identifiable by the same index, and thus it will not consume energy because if it's not modified then there's no information entropy. Whatever is around that does is modified will thus consume information entropy and thus will consume more power than the original information. Thus, the same logic as with bitcoin hashing applies: the gap will be permanent regardless of computing power, so it's a race that will always be lost (if both parts keep on the race, of course, for the moment one stops it's a matter of time for the other to take the lead).
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