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Science sleuths flag hundreds of papers that use AI without disclosing it

Telltale signs of chatbot use are scattered through the scholarly literature — and, in some cases, have disappeared without a trace.
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  1. Diana Kwon

“As of my last knowledge update”, “regenerate response”, “as an AI language model” — these are just a few of the telltale signs of researchers’ use of artificial intelligence (AI) that science-integrity watchers have found sprinkled through papers in the scholarly literature.

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Nature 641, 290-291 (2025)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-025-01180-2

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