The Claim
The use of artificial intelligence in academic writing lowers the barrier to producing fraudulent manuscripts that appear legitimate, thereby exacerbating the publish-or-perish culture in academia.
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Artificial intelligence tools make it easier to create fake academic papers that look real, which intensifies the pressure on researchers to publish regardless of quality.
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AI exacerbates existing pressures in academia, such as the publish-or-perish culture, by lowering the barrier to producing fraudulent manuscripts that appear legitimate.
AI tools generate text that mimics legitimate research writing, making it harder to identify fake papers. This allows more fraudulent papers to be published, which increases the number of publications required to succeed in academia, forcing researchers to produce more work under greater pressure.
What the research says
1 studyStudy: Artificial Intelligence-Based Fake Papers: A New Threat to Academic Publishing
AI makes it super easy and cheap to fake research papers that look real, and since academics are pressured to publish a lot to get jobs or funding, this makes the pressure even worse.
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