Company Offering '100% Human-Written, Never AI' Medical Research Is Entirely AI
Company Offering '100% Human-Written, Never AI' Medical Research Is 100% AI
Research Gold, a site advertising medical research services, claims its work is '100% human-written, never AI' and lists PhD reviewers and methodologists. However, an investigation reveals that the listed PhD reviewers are AI-generated and don't exist, while real methodologists are used without consent. The company's phone, email, and chat communications are all AI-generated, and it even uses AI to respond to inquiries. Despite its claims, Research Gold appears to be entirely AI-driven, raising concerns about AI's impact on academic publishing.
“I do not work for Research Gold, and I never agreed to be listed as one of their methodologists. I have no relationship with this company,” Berrio told me. “They are using my name, photo, and bio without my permission. I'm in the process of documenting the site and will be sending them a formal takedown request.”
- ElProlactin
One thing that I find useful is to look at the about page, as well as terms of service or privacy policy, of any website.
If there's no entity named, or you can't verify that a named entity actually exists, it's a red flag.
In this case, there's no individual or company named anywhere that I can see. Not on the About page, and not in any of the legal agreements. And the phone number looks like it's a VoIP number from Onvoy, a major wholesaler, which is a yellow flag.
- RevEng
I think this will become ever more common as AI improves. We used to joke, "On the Internet, nobody knows you're a dog," but now that is clearly true for AI agents. They can automate every part of the process, from domain and hosting registration, to web content creation, to responses to emails and even phone calls. Entire personas are trivial to create and maintain. This is what many companies are openly trying to do as cost cutting measures, but taken to its extreme you end up with entire companies generating income that are entirely agent driven. So long as the tokens cost less than the revenues they can generate, people will deploy these to passively make money for them, just like the early 2000s when there were entire webpages just present to show ads to unsuspecting visitors.
- jbethune
It's interesting to notice which fields try to garner positive publicity by emphasizing that they DON'T use AI. There is increasing negativity about AI generally but it is quite revealing for an organization to try to make their refusal to use it a big part of their identity. Maybe I can start offering artisanal software development services to go after that sweet hipster dollar - code done 100% by hand, cruelty-free.
- amanzi
Even the website looks AI generated. Lots of cards with hover effects, icons in square boxes, the button shapes and behaviours, and just the general look and feel has Claude written all over it.
- ggm
Surely the FTC would be all over this for truth in advertising, even if the FDA wasn't. The "services for medical researchers" reads like "tell us the result you want and the level of journal prestige and we'll price an outcome for you"