As a writer online and a researcher offline, my work pretty much always involves looking up existing research or literature concerning a certain essay topic or research question. On here, we have discussed in some length the existing controversies and fraudulent practices in research and academia, from generated images and manuscripts, to the questionable practices … Continue reading The growing problem of fake citations in academia
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It’s been a year, how is the situation now?
Over a year ago, I posted a rather lengthy rant concerning the contemporary pestilence in academia that is the use of generative artificial intelligence, which I will abbreviate to GAI here, in the process of writing academic manuscripts and more egregiously, the creation of figures and diagrams. In that essay, I made my stance on … Continue reading It’s been a year, how is the situation now?
A rant on a concerning phenomenon in academia
This is a subject that may seem out of the blue here on The Language Closet, but it is something I want to get off my chest. After all, having a background in science, and a particular enjoyment in reading up on topics in linguistics, it is inevitable for me to at the very least, … Continue reading A rant on a concerning phenomenon in academia
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