Boffins warn that AI paper mills are swamping science with garbage studies
A report from a British university warns that scientific knowledge itself is under threat from a flood of low-quality AI-generated research papers.
The research team from the University of Surrey notes an “explosion of formulaic research articles,” including inappropriate study designs and false discoveries, based on data cribbed from the US National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) nationwide health database.
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