Flood of ‘junk’: How AI is changing scientific publishing

Bik pointing out image duplications she found in a scientific paper published in the peer-reviewed scientific journal PLOS One in California. Artificial intelligence have recently made their way into scientific journals, shining a light on the wave of AI-generated text and images washing over the academic publishing industry. — AFP

PARIS: An infographic of a rat with a preposterously huge genitals. Another showing human legs with way too many bones. An introduction that starts: “Certainly, here is a possible introduction for your topic”.

These are a few of the most egregious examples of artificial intelligence that have recently made their way into scientific journals, shining a light on the wave of AI-generated text and images washing over the academic publishing industry.