Scientists using LLMs will publish more papers but of lower quality, study warns

A modelling study published in Nature predicts that the combination of publish-or-perish incentives and the use of large language models will lead to a surge in scientific papers that are less refined and rigorous. Researchers warn that AI tools lower the effort needed to produce manuscripts, fuelling quantity over quality. The findings raise concerns about the long-term integrity of the scientific literature.

Similar stories

💻 Technology OpenAI cuts AI model prices by up to 80% TVN24 · 1d ago 🔬 Science Reviewer flagged two papers with fake authors — both were accepted as orals Hacker News · 2d ago 💻 Technology Google used AI to find more Chrome bugs in June than in the past two years combined TechCrunch · 2d ago