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NEWS 31 May 2023 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. By Layal Liverpool Layal Liverpool View author publications You can also search for this author in PubMed  Google Scholar

Twitter Facebook Email Access through your institution Buy or subscribe 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.

Nature 618, 222-223 (2023)

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

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