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AI intensifies fight against ‘paper mills’ that churn out fake research

Text- and image-generating tools present a new hurdle for efforts to tackle the growing number of fake papers making their way into the academic literature.
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Advances in artificial intelligence (AI) are complicating publishers’ efforts to tackle the growing problem of paper mills — companies that produce fake scientific papers to order. Generative AI tools, including chatbots such as ChatGPT and image-generating software, provide new ways of producing paper-mill content, which could prove particularly difficult to detect. These were among the challenges discussed by research-integrity experts at a summit on 24 May, which focused on the paper-mill problem.

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Nature 618, 222-223 (2023)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-023-01780-w

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