Science journalists find ChatGPT is bad at summarizing scientific papers

Summarizing complex scientific findings for a non-expert audience is one of the most important things a science journalist does from day to day. Generating summaries of complex writing has also been ... Read More

‘Publish or Perish’ Selection Pressures Shape Science Publishing

Scientific publishing evolves under pressure, rewarding speed over quality and creating vulnerability to fraud or AI misuse, but new systems could change this. Read More

More scientific papers being written with help of ChatGPT—especially in computer science

Since its release in November of 2022, the use of ChatGPT and other large language models (LLMs) has proliferated throughout many disciplines, providing writing assistance for everything from speeches ... Read More

ChatGPT tends to ignore retractions on scientific papers

The large language model–based chatbot ChatGPT fails to highlight the validity concerns with scientific papers that have been retracted or have been the subject of other editorial notices, according ... Read More

Study sheds light on how reams of fake scientific papers are getting into literature

The number of scientific papers flagged as fraudulent has been growing. Now a new paper sheds light on how it’s being done. Researchers found loose networks of unscrupulous editors working with ... Read More

Fraudulent scientific papers are booming

SCIENTIFIC JOURNALS exist to do one thing: provide accurate, peer-reviewed reports of new research to an interested audience. But according to a paper published in PNAS on August 4th, that lofty goal ... Read More