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The appearance of thousands of formulaic biomedical studies has been linked to the rise of text-generating AI tools.

Data from five large open-access health databases are being used to generate thousands of poor-quality, formulaic papers, an analysis has found. Its authors say that the surge in publications could indicate the exploitation of these databases by people using large language models(LLMs) to mass-produce scholarly articles, or even by paper mills — companies that churn out papers to order.

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[-] hobovision@mander.xyz 2 points 17 hours ago

It's not new, just getting worse, huh?

[-] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago)

The motivation isn't, but the technology to generate a slop paper is.

I'll be interested to see how journals and (even better) the scientific community at large deals with this. Maybe it's a blessing in disguise?

[-] RvTV95XBeo@sh.itjust.works 1 points 15 hours ago

Its gonna be something distopian AF, like every scientist now gets public "science scores" based on number of attributable citations and everyone now tries to game their science score so they can secure tenure.

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