A firm selling ‘100% human-written, never AI’ medical research turned out to be AI all the way down
Research Gold sells systematic reviews, meta-analyses and ready-to-submit manuscripts to medical researchers, charging $1,900 for a full systematic review, and advertises that its work is ‘100% human-written, never AI’. 404 Media checked the eight PhD methodologists listed on the site and found that none of them exist: the portrait photographs are AI-generated and none of the names have any publication record, including the founder billed as Dr. Elena Vasquez. A second group of names on the site belonged to real scientists who had never heard of the company. When a reporter telephoned, an agent called Sarah insisted ‘I'm a real person’ and carried on selling. The emails, and the statement the company eventually sent, also read as machine-written.
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