How journals are fighting back against a wave of questionable images (original) (raw)

Publishers are deploying AI-based tools to detect suspicious images, but generative AI threatens their efforts.

It seems that every month brings a fresh slew of high-profile allegations against researchers whose papers — some of them years old — contain signs of possible image manipulation.

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Nature 626, 697-698 (2024)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-024-00372-6

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