Just as booksellers are inundated with AI slop and publishing is reckoning with suspicions of AI-written books, academic publishing is facing similar issues—and their approaches to the problem, including vetting tools and guidelines for authors, can inform and inspire trade publishers. Submissions to academic journals have ballooned, and, while it’s impossible to prove, many of the papers have the signs of AI, including mistakes and authors with a large number of publications in just a few years, medical journal editor Itamar Ashkenazi said in a recent presentation for the Committee On Publication Ethics (COPE). Generative AI can be useful in […]
