[Ads-l] AI shibboleths: delve, intricate, pivotal, meticulous

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Website: Scientific American
Article: AI Chatbots Have Thoroughly Infiltrated Scientific Publishing
Author: Chris Stokel-Walker
Date: May 1, 2024

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/chatbots-have-thoroughly-infiltrated-scientific-publishing/

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Researchers are misusing ChatGPT and other artificial intelligence
chatbots to produce scientific literature. At least, that’s a new fear
that some scientists have raised, citing a stark rise in suspicious AI
shibboleths showing up in published papers.

Some of these tells—such as the inadvertent inclusion of "certainly,
here is a possible introduction for your topic" in a recent paper in
Surfaces and Interfaces, a journal published by Elsevier—are
reasonably obvious evidence that a scientist used an AI chatbot known
as a large language model (LLM).
. . .
In most other cases AI involvement isn’t as clear-cut, and automated
AI text detectors are unreliable tools for analyzing a paper.
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