GPT-fabricated scientific papers on Google Scholar: Key features, spread, and implications for preempting evidence manipulation
https://misinforeview.hks.harvard.edu/article/gpt-fabricated-scientific-papers-on-google-scholar-key-features-spread-and-implications-for-preempting-evidence-manipulation/"Roughly two-thirds of the retrieved papers were found to have been produced, at least in part, through undisclosed, potentially deceptive use of GPT. The majority (57%) of these questionable papers dealt with policy-relevant subjects (i.e., environment, health, computing), susceptible to influence operations. Most were available in several copies on different domains (e.g., social media, archives, and repositories).
Two main risks arise from the increasingly common use of
#GPT to (mass-)produce
#fake, scientific
#publications. First, the abundance of fabricated “studies” seeping into all areas of the
#research infrastructure threatens to overwhelm the scholarly communication system and jeopardize the integrity of the scientific record. A second risk lies in the increased possibility that convincingly scientific-looking content was in fact deceitfully created with
#AI tools and is also optimized to be retrieved by publicly available academic search engines, particularly
#GoogleScholar. However small, this possibility and awareness of it risks undermining the basis for
#trust in
#scientificKnowledge and poses serious societal risks."
#science #AIEthics