Study Reveals AI Influence in Scientific Papers
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Summary
A massive study has identified AI fingerprints in millions of scientific papers, revealing the impact of Large Language Models (LLMs) like ChatGPT and Google Gemini on content creation.
Key quotes
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As these AI resources, like ChatGPT and Google Gemini, become more proficient at generating near-human-quality writing, it has become more difficult to distinguish between purely human writing from content that was either modified or entirely generated by LLMs.
Words showing increased frequency in 2024. (A) Frequencies in 2024 and frequency ratios (r). Both axes are on a log scale.
Excess words were manually annotated into content words (blue) and style words (orange).
Credit: Science Advances (2025). DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.
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