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AI beats human sleuth at finding problematic images in research papers

An algorithm that takes just seconds to scan a paper for duplicated images racks up more suspicious images than a person.
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Scientific-image sleuth Sholto David blogs about image manipulation in research papers, a pastime that has exposed him to many accounts of scientific fraud. But other scientists “are still a little bit in the dark about the extent of the problem”, David says. He decided he needed some data.

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Nature 622, 230 (2023)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-023-02920-y

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  1. David, S. Preprint at bioRxiv https://doi.org/10.1101/2023.09.03.556099 (2023).

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