A weird phrase is plaguing scientific papers – and we traced it back to a glitch in AI training data
(theconversation.com)https://theconversation.com/a-weird-phrase-is-plaguing-scientific-papers-and-we-traced-it-back-to-a-glitch-in-ai-training-data-254463The phrase is "vegetative electron microscopy" and it was created by scanning errors in the early names of scanning paper documents into computers. Most of the article is angst about the scientific literature getting corrupted.