Abstracts written by ChatGPT fool scientists (original) (raw)

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• 12 January 2023

Researchers cannot always differentiate between AI-generated and original abstracts.

1. Holly Else

An artificial-intelligence (AI) chatbot can write such convincing fake research-paper abstracts that scientists are often unable to spot them, according to a preprint posted on the bioRxiv server in late December1. Researchers are divided over the implications for science.

References

1. Gao, C. A. et al. Preprint at bioRxiv https://doi.org/10.1101/2022.12.23.521610 (2022).
2. Blanco-Gonzalez, A. et al. Preprint at arXiv https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2212.08104 (2022).
3. O’Connor, S. & ChatGPT Nurse Educ. Pract. 66, 103537 (2023).
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