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“Academic journals have a fraud problem”:
A conversation with Elisabeth Bik
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Nearly all surveyed medical and Ph.D. students in Ukraine used AI for academic purposes, some for
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Worthwhile Reads Elsewhere
"AI hallucinates because it’s trained to fake answers
it doesn’t know
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"Fraud is no longer a series of isolated ethical lapses but a business model that exploits vulnerable points
in the research economy
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"Open Reviews is a good first step. Pseudo-Anonymous Reviews can take it further":
An opinion piece and its peer reviews
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ICYMI
Challenge accepted: A reader wrote a program to find fake
references in books
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