ChatGPT writes convincing fake scientific abstracts that fool reviewers in study

Could the new and wildly popular chatbot ChatGPT convincingly produce fake abstracts that fool scientists into thinking those studies are the real thing? That was the question worrying Northwestern Medicine physician-scientist Dr. Catherine Gao when she designed a study--collaborating with University of Chicago scientists--to test that theory. Yes, scientists can be fooled, their new study reports. Blinded human reviewers--when given a mix real and falsely generated abstracts--could only spot ChatGPT generated abstracts 68% of the time. The reviewers also incorrectly identified 14% of real abstracts as being AI generated.