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Stephen Downes

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This paper surveyed Google Scholar for questionable papers, which it then analyzed to determine how many were authored by an AI application such as ChatGPT. It found a fair number of papers. Notably, limiting the selection to indexed journals slowed, but did not stop, the flow. It should be noted, as Grant Potter highlights on Mastodon, that "It is important not to present this as a technical problem that exists only because of AI text generators but to relate it to the wider concerns in which it is embedded."

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