"The Latest ‘Crisis’ — Is the Research Literature Overrun with ChatGPT- and LLM-generated Articles?"


Elsevier has been under the spotlight this month for publishing a paper that contains a clearly ChatGPT-written portion of its introduction. The first sentence of the paper’s Introduction reads, "Certainly, here is a possible introduction for your topic:. . . ." To date, the article remains unchanged, and unretracted. A second paper, containing the phrase "I’m very sorry, but I don’t have access to real-time information or patient-specific data, as I am an AI language model" was subsequently found, and similarly remains unchanged. This has led to a spate of amateur bibliometricians scanning the literature for similar common AI-generated phrases, with some alarming results.

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Author: Charles W. Bailey, Jr.

Charles W. Bailey, Jr.