A phantom term born from a 1950s typo has 'infected' neural networks: how an OCR bug became a marker of AI-generated content
The fictional term "vegetative electron microscopy," which arose from a 1950s OCR error, has been found in 22 scientific articles and is consistently reproduced by the neural networks GPT-4o and Claude 3.5. Experts are calling for the opening of training datasets.
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