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A paper that used Midjourney to generate figures of surgical procedure.

Paper was thankfully retracted

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[–] Asetru@feddit.org 23 points 1 week ago (4 children)

That image has been living in my head rent-free since I first saw it.

[–] SGforce@lemmy.ca 20 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] Asetru@feddit.org 6 points 1 week ago
[–] cassowary@lemm.ee 7 points 1 week ago

Me too and I want it gone 😂

[–] mybuttnolie@sopuli.xyz 4 points 1 week ago (3 children)
[–] Contramuffin@lemmy.world 2 points 5 days ago

To summarize: paper got published last year that had this as a figure. It got widely ridiculed because there's no way that this figure passed peer review. Turns out the reviewers did point it out but the editor ignored it

[–] fossilesque@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 1 week ago

It's just science. Here's a diagram:

[–] apotheotic@beehaw.org 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

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