Use of AI Is Seeping Into Academic Journals—and It’s Proving Difficult to Detect | WIRED

Date Linked: 17 August 2023

Source: story link, from wired.com

Good article on a worrying trend. It’s things like this that make me skeptical of arguments that generative AI could have real benefit when used properly. It’s not that I disagree—it’s that in the aggregate, I’m not sure the proper uses will outweigh the problems.

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