Guillaume Cabanac
Computer scientist at the University of Toulouse (France) who, with Cyril Labbé and Alexander Magazinov, coined the term tortured phrases in 2021 to describe synonym-mangled jargon — "counterfeit consciousness" for artificial intelligence — that betrays machine-paraphrased text in published science, and who went on to build the Problematic Paper Screener, an operational detector that surfaces suspect papers at scale.
Matters to this vault as the origin figure of a forensic tradition it keeps crossing: catching machine-generated or machine-laundered text by the accidental residue it leaves, a posture the vault's later LLM-era citation-fabrication notes inherit even as the underlying generative mechanism changes from paraphrasing tools to language models.
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