Use of AI Is Seeping Into Academic Journals—and It’s Proving Difficult to Detect

The podcast discusses the challenge of detecting AI in scientific writing, including one case where a peer-reviewed study included a sentence associated with a chatbot AI. It explores the challenges of detecting and disclosing AI use in academic journals, and the impact of AI on the quality and authenticity of scientific literature. A study that developed a tool to differentiate between human-written and AI-written science writing is also highlighted.