PYMNTS.com September 10, 2024
A surge of artificial intelligence-generated fake research papers is permeating academic search engines like Google Scholar, potentially eroding public trust in scientific findings and derailing product development across industries that rely on cutting-edge research.
A study from Harvard Kennedy School Misinformation Review uncovered an academic research trend, first reported by Newsweek. The researchers identified 139 papers suspected of being generated by AI tools, with more than half focused on topics including health, environmental issues and computing technology.
“Large language models (LLMs) generate results based on a probability skewed to the data on which the foundation model has been trained,” Sid Rao, CEO and co-founder of AI company Positron Networks, told PYMNTS. “This can result in biases in the text that...
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