John Ioannidis: AI is generating 'false, fraudulent and fake' medical research
whoamisri · reddit · 2026-10-14
Stanford's John Ioannidis, famed for exposing the reproducibility crisis in medicine, warns in an IAI essay that AI is generating 'false, fraudulent and fake' medical research — LLMs mass-producing plausible-looking papers that undermine the already fragile credibility of the medical literature.
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