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Scientific authors

Incidents Harmed By

Incident 10442 Report
Reported Emergence of 'Vegetative Electron Microscopy' in Scientific Papers Traced to Purported AI Training Data Contamination

2025-04-15

Researchers reportedly traced the appearance of the nonsensical phrase "vegetative electron microscopy" in scientific papers to contamination in AI training data. Testing indicated that large language models such as GPT-3, GPT-4, and Claude 3.5 may reproduce the term. The error allegedly originated from a digitization mistake that merged unrelated words during scanning, and a later translation error between Farsi and English.

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Incidents involved as Deployer

Incident 10442 Report
Reported Emergence of 'Vegetative Electron Microscopy' in Scientific Papers Traced to Purported AI Training Data Contamination

2025-04-15

Researchers reportedly traced the appearance of the nonsensical phrase "vegetative electron microscopy" in scientific papers to contamination in AI training data. Testing indicated that large language models such as GPT-3, GPT-4, and Claude 3.5 may reproduce the term. The error allegedly originated from a digitization mistake that merged unrelated words during scanning, and a later translation error between Farsi and English.

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Related Entities
Other entities that are related to the same incident. For example, if the developer of an incident is this entity but the deployer is another entity, they are marked as related entities.
 

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OpenAI

Incidents involved as both Developer and Deployer
  • Incident 1044
    2 Reports

    Reported Emergence of 'Vegetative Electron Microscopy' in Scientific Papers Traced to Purported AI Training Data Contamination

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Entity

Anthropic

Incidents involved as both Developer and Deployer
  • Incident 1044
    2 Reports

    Reported Emergence of 'Vegetative Electron Microscopy' in Scientific Papers Traced to Purported AI Training Data Contamination

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Entity

Researchers

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 1044
    2 Reports

    Reported Emergence of 'Vegetative Electron Microscopy' in Scientific Papers Traced to Purported AI Training Data Contamination

  • Incident 1044
    2 Reports

    Reported Emergence of 'Vegetative Electron Microscopy' in Scientific Papers Traced to Purported AI Training Data Contamination

Incidents involved as Deployer
  • Incident 1044
    2 Reports

    Reported Emergence of 'Vegetative Electron Microscopy' in Scientific Papers Traced to Purported AI Training Data Contamination

  • Incident 1044
    2 Reports

    Reported Emergence of 'Vegetative Electron Microscopy' in Scientific Papers Traced to Purported AI Training Data Contamination

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Entity

Scientific publishers

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 1044
    2 Reports

    Reported Emergence of 'Vegetative Electron Microscopy' in Scientific Papers Traced to Purported AI Training Data Contamination

  • Incident 1044
    2 Reports

    Reported Emergence of 'Vegetative Electron Microscopy' in Scientific Papers Traced to Purported AI Training Data Contamination

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Entity

Peer reviewers

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 1044
    2 Reports

    Reported Emergence of 'Vegetative Electron Microscopy' in Scientific Papers Traced to Purported AI Training Data Contamination

  • Incident 1044
    2 Reports

    Reported Emergence of 'Vegetative Electron Microscopy' in Scientific Papers Traced to Purported AI Training Data Contamination

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Entity

Scholars

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 1044
    2 Reports

    Reported Emergence of 'Vegetative Electron Microscopy' in Scientific Papers Traced to Purported AI Training Data Contamination

  • Incident 1044
    2 Reports

    Reported Emergence of 'Vegetative Electron Microscopy' in Scientific Papers Traced to Purported AI Training Data Contamination

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Entity

Readers of scientific publications

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 1044
    2 Reports

    Reported Emergence of 'Vegetative Electron Microscopy' in Scientific Papers Traced to Purported AI Training Data Contamination

  • Incident 1044
    2 Reports

    Reported Emergence of 'Vegetative Electron Microscopy' in Scientific Papers Traced to Purported AI Training Data Contamination

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Entity

Scientific record

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 1044
    2 Reports

    Reported Emergence of 'Vegetative Electron Microscopy' in Scientific Papers Traced to Purported AI Training Data Contamination

  • Incident 1044
    2 Reports

    Reported Emergence of 'Vegetative Electron Microscopy' in Scientific Papers Traced to Purported AI Training Data Contamination

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Entity

Academic integrity

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 1044
    2 Reports

    Reported Emergence of 'Vegetative Electron Microscopy' in Scientific Papers Traced to Purported AI Training Data Contamination

  • Incident 1044
    2 Reports

    Reported Emergence of 'Vegetative Electron Microscopy' in Scientific Papers Traced to Purported AI Training Data Contamination

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Entity

GPT-3

Incidents implicated systems
  • Incident 1044
    2 Reports

    Reported Emergence of 'Vegetative Electron Microscopy' in Scientific Papers Traced to Purported AI Training Data Contamination

  • Incident 1044
    2 Reports

    Reported Emergence of 'Vegetative Electron Microscopy' in Scientific Papers Traced to Purported AI Training Data Contamination

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Entity

GPT-4

Incidents implicated systems
  • Incident 1044
    2 Reports

    Reported Emergence of 'Vegetative Electron Microscopy' in Scientific Papers Traced to Purported AI Training Data Contamination

  • Incident 1044
    2 Reports

    Reported Emergence of 'Vegetative Electron Microscopy' in Scientific Papers Traced to Purported AI Training Data Contamination

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Entity

Claude 3.5

Incidents implicated systems
  • Incident 1044
    2 Reports

    Reported Emergence of 'Vegetative Electron Microscopy' in Scientific Papers Traced to Purported AI Training Data Contamination

  • Incident 1044
    2 Reports

    Reported Emergence of 'Vegetative Electron Microscopy' in Scientific Papers Traced to Purported AI Training Data Contamination

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Entity

Common Crawl

Incidents implicated systems
  • Incident 1044
    2 Reports

    Reported Emergence of 'Vegetative Electron Microscopy' in Scientific Papers Traced to Purported AI Training Data Contamination

  • Incident 1044
    2 Reports

    Reported Emergence of 'Vegetative Electron Microscopy' in Scientific Papers Traced to Purported AI Training Data Contamination

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