The proliferation of references to fake articles threatens to undermine the legitimacy of institutional research across the ...

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is increasingly being implicated in the generation of false scientific papers, sparking a widespread debate within the academic community and beyond about the implications ...

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Hidden AI Prompts Trick Academics Into Giving Research Papers Only Positive Comments Your email has been sent Researchers from 14 academic institutions in eight countries hid AI prompts in their ...

Artificial intelligence is creating knowledge. A study has revealed that AI can produce academic papers so convincing they mimic the output of seasoned researchers. This could be a shift in how we ...

What happens when technology becomes so powerful that it disrupts the very systems it was designed to support? In the world of academia, this question is no longer hypothetical. The rise of AI tools ...

WTF?! A new development in academic publishing has been uncovered in a recent investigation: researchers are embedding hidden instructions in preprint manuscripts to influence artificial intelligence ...

There’s sloppy science, and there’s AI slop science. In an ironic twist of fate, beleaguered AI researchers are warning that the field is being choked by a deluge of shoddy academic papers written ...

Students face increasing pressure to produce high-quality written work in today's fast-paced academic world. Artificial Intelligence (AI) is a game-changer in the field of education. Students may find ...

Have you ever felt the frustration of hitting a paywall just as you’ve found the perfect research paper? Or spent hours combing through dense academic texts, only to feel like you’re barely scratching ...

At the 2025 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP 2025) in Suzhou, China this week (November 4-9, 2025), researchers from Bloomberg’s AI Engineering group and its BLAW ...

University of the Witwatersrand provides support as a hosting partner of The Conversation AFRICA. Artificial intelligence (AI) refers to “intelligent machines and algorithms that can reason and adapt ...