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October 27, 2026 ai_technology technology

I Used AI to Fake a Scientific Paper. Here’s What Happened

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Science has a spam problem. And the spam filter is getting clogged up.According to all reports, academic publishing is drowning in what has come to be called AI slop: low-quality, mass-produced content generated with AI. By 2025, an estimated 57 percent of all published academic articles exhibited detectable evidence of large language model (LLM) influence, a massive jump from 12 percent in 2023. What’s more, over 12 percent of Nature Communications reviews were found to be completely AI-generat

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