Monday, 30 August 2021

Scholars discover a mysterious wave of scientific papers using odd, "tortured phrases"

Chart of "tortured phrases" from Nature

Last spring, Guillaume Cabanac—a computer scientist at the University of Toulouse—and two colleagues noticed a weird trend: A surge of published comp-sci academic papers that were using weird phrases in place of well-established ones (previously at Boing Boing).

For example, instead of "artificial intelligence", the authors would write "counterfeit consciousness". — Read the rest