ChatGPT scandal now rocks scientific world as multiple published studies are found with AI-generated text like 'as of my last knowledge update'

Academia was engulfed in scandal this week after research papers across dozens of academic journals were found to have been written by AI. An investigation found over 100 papers that were likely written, at least in part, by ChatGPT. These papers slipped through because of lax or nonexistent peer-review processes at for-profit journals, stoking wider fears that the body of human scientific knowledge is being rapidly infiltrated by low-quality computer-generated garbage. Many of these papers were published in obscure scientific journals, but news of this kind of scientific fraud hurts public trust in science, many scientists agree. Even before AI-generated text in scientific papers, so-called'paper mills' have been pumping out low-quality and even plagiarized papers for years.