potentially deceptive use of GPT. The majority (57%) of these questionable papers dealt with policy-relevant subjects (i.e., environment, health, computing), susceptible to influence operations. Most were available in several copies on different domains (e.g., social media, archives, and β¦ 3/6
Two main risks arise from the increasingly common use of #GPT to (mass-)produce #fake, scientific #publications. First, the abundance of fabricated βstudiesβ seeping into all areas of the #research infrastructure threatens to overwhelm the scholarly communication system and β¦ 4/6
jeopardize the integrity of the scientific record. A second risk lies in the increased possibility that convincingly scientific-looking content was in fact deceitfully created with #AI tools and is also optimized to be retrieved by publicly available academic search engines, particularly β¦ 5/6
#GoogleScholar. However small, this possibility and awareness of it risks undermining the basis for #trust in #scientificKnowledge and poses serious societal risks."
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"Roughly two-thirds of the retrieved papers were found to have been produced, at least in part, through undisclosed, β¦ 2/6
Two main risks arise from the increasingly common use of #GPT to (mass-)produce #fake, scientific #publications. First, the abundance of fabricated βstudiesβ seeping into all areas of the #research infrastructure threatens to overwhelm the scholarly communication system and β¦ 4/6
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