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Low quality papers are flooding the cancer literature — can this AI tool help to catch them?

Low quality papers are flooding the cancer literature — can this AI tool help to catch them?

Credit: Malik Evren/iStock via Getty An artificial intelligence (AI) tool that scans manuscript titles and abstracts has flagged more than 250,000 cancer studies that bear textual similarities to articles that are known to have been produced by paper mills. These businesses produce fake or low-quality research papers and sell authorships. Articles produced by paper mills often include fabricated data, duplicated …

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How to find the papers you need to read — and avoid the ones you don’t

How to find the papers you need to read — and avoid the ones you don’t

Too many papers, too little time.Credit: Hulton Archive/Stringer/Getty The challenge of staying up to date with the scientific literature has become a burden for everyone from students to senior investigators. In fields such as public health, annual publication counts now exceed half a million articles — more than 1,300 papers every day. Experienced researchers and early-career scientists alike report anxiety …

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Man Delivering Taylor Swift Deposition Papers From Baldoni Arrested

Man Delivering Taylor Swift Deposition Papers From Baldoni Arrested

A process server was arrested after allegedly attempting to serve Taylor Swift deposition papers on behalf of Justin Baldoni’s lawyers amid the ongoing legal feud between Baldoni and Blake Lively. Star was first to report the news, stating that Justin Lee Fisher, 48, was caught on Sept. 15 at Kelce’s gated property in Leawood, Kansas. According to the outlet, incident …

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Journals infiltrated with ‘copycat’ papers that can be written by AI

Journals infiltrated with ‘copycat’ papers that can be written by AI

Open data sets and AI tools can be used to mass-produce low-quality, redundant papers.Credit: Tutatama/Alamy An analysis of a literature database finds that text-generating artificial intelligence (AI) tools — including ChatGPT and Gemini — can be used to rewrite scientific papers and produce ‘copycat’ versions that are then passed off as new research. In a preprint posted on medRxiv on …

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Science journalists find ChatGPT is bad at summarizing scientific papers

Science journalists find ChatGPT is bad at summarizing scientific papers

No, I don’t think this machine summary can replace my human summary, now that you ask… No, I don’t think this machine summary can replace my human summary, now that you ask… Credit: AAAS Still, the quantitative survey results among those journalists were pretty one-sided. On the question of whether the ChatGPT summaries “could feasibly blend into the rest of …

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PLOS One slaps four papers with expressions of concern for overlapping control data – Retraction Watch

PLOS One slaps four papers with expressions of concern for overlapping control data – Retraction Watch

Four papers from a team of researchers in Japan have received expressions of concern for overlap in control samples, data, study design and statistical analyses. The publisher of the articles says it has closed its investigation.  The notices were published in PLOS One from July 31 to August 3 to inform readers of “study design concerns” and to provide additional …

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Aaron Phypers Claims Denise Richards ‘Failed to File’ Adoption Papers for Daughter Eloise

Aaron Phypers Claims Denise Richards ‘Failed to File’ Adoption Papers for Daughter Eloise

In court documents filed on August 20, Phypers alleged that Richards had him sign adoption papers for her now 14-year-old daughter, but “failed to file them.” Aaron Phypers is accusing ex-wife Denise Richards of never finalizing the adoption of her youngest daughter, Eloise. In court documents filed on August 20 and obtained by PEOPLE, Phypers alleged that Richards had him …

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What counts as plagiarism? AI-generated papers pose new risks

What counts as plagiarism? AI-generated papers pose new risks

This January, Byeongjun Park, a researcher in artificial intelligence (AI), received a surprising e-mail. Two researchers from India told him that an AI-generated manuscript had used methods from one of his papers, without credit. Park looked up the manuscript. It wasn’t formally published, but had been posted online (see go.nature.com/45pdgqb) as one of a number of papers generated by a …

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Trump Administration Minimizes Summit Papers Left in Hotel – The New York Times

Trump Administration Minimizes Summit Papers Left in Hotel  The New York Times Government papers found in an Alaskan hotel reveal new details of Trump-Putin summit  NPR Printout identifying gift, menu at Trump-Putin summit left at hotel printer  New York Post Meeting locations, a statue for Putin: Details of Alaska summit were left on hotel printer  USA Today White House Responds to Trump-Putin Documents Being …

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Don’t store papers and cards inside your closed MacBook Air

Don’t store papers and cards inside your closed MacBook Air

Pieces of card can break a MacBook Air display – Image Credit: TikTok/Classicheidi If put anything in between your MacBook screen and keyboard — a screen protector, a hard crumb, a camera guard, anything — it’s just a matter of time until you open it up to a shattered display. Here’s why, and how much it will cost to repair. …

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