KAMAHL:
If gurovdigital's claim were true, and a single AI error "infected" all the downstream academic literature, then why would we see papers using this term before LLMs were a thing?
The real answer is that when papers use the term "vegetative electron microscopy" they tend to be written in Farsi. And it just so happens that the Farsi word for scan (روبشی) looks similar to the one for vegetative (رویشی)!