David B. Resnik and Mohammad Hosseini on the negative impact of AI-generated content in scientific publishing:
Generative AI is flooding scientific research with quick and easy text, figures, and citations that are either partially inaccurate or wholly false—and very difficult to detect.
Science’s overtaxed academic publishing system and its publish-or-perish work culture have long provided fertile ground for content mills and predatory presses.
AI systematizes intellectual dishonesty, transforming it from a collection of individual misdeeds into a thriving industrial pipeline, threatening both science and society.
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