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Company Offering ‘100% Human-Written, Never AI’ Medical Research Is Entirely AI

A medical research company marketing '100% human-written' studies was staffed entirely by AI personas or stolen identities—exposing how AI fraud is entering peer review.

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Why it matters

AI is enabling credential fraud and contaminating the research supply chain itself. This is no longer theoretical risk—it's happening in medical publishing, where practitioners and institutions rely on peer review integrity. The gap between AI capability and institutional safeguards is becoming a workplace and trust crisis.

The key facts

5 to know
  1. Research Gold marketed '100% human-written, never AI' guarantee

  2. Team of 'human methodologists' were AI-generated personas or used real identities without permission

  3. Implication: fraudulent medical research entering peer-review process

  4. Exposed by 404 Media investigation

  5. Affects trust in research supply chain and institutional vetting

Go to the source

404 Media404media.co

Publisher excerpt: Research Gold's team of human methodologists are either AI generated or using the identity of real people without their permission
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