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AI intensifies fight against ‘paper mills’ that churn out fake research

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Re: AI intensifies fight against ‘paper mills’ that churn out fake research

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The problem is the people doing this. The AI doesn't have agency, it's just an autocomplete tool.

That doesn't really seem relevant to the discussion. AI obviously makes it 1000x easier to generate realistic-looking fake papers, so it "intensifies" the issue as this article explains. It is newsworthy and discussion-worthy, and as you said AI doesn't have agency so we don't need to worry about hurting its feelings by referencing it in a headline.

Re: AI intensifies fight against ‘paper mills’ that churn out fake research

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The upside from this downside is that it increases the performance of papers that can be replicated easily. In fact, once AI can replicate papers, that'll be helpful for verifying a lot of research.

How will AI be able to replicate papers?
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