Today’s tell is the phrase “vegetative electron microscopy” — an OCR artifact from scanning a paper with “vegetative” in the first column and “electron microscopy” next to it in the second column and reading it as a single phrase. … But it keeps showing up. “Vegetative electron microscopy” is present in about 20 papers on Google Scholar, including one in an Elsevier journal.

Sounds like the LLMs are already eating themselves.

The phrase is now in Guillaume Cabanac’s Problematic Paper Screener — along with “bosom peril,” “kidney disappointment,” “fake neural organizations,” and “lactose bigotry.”