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AI beats human sleuth at finding problematic images in research papers (www.nature.com)
submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/technology
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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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[–] thbb 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

As commonly said: the product advertises its new AI feature. The job posting of the person who implemented it was 'data scientist', and the technique used is called logistic regression.

Well, in this context, it's more image comparison or some other simple technique not even relying on a training dataset.