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Authors and peer reviewers are failing to disclose the use of LLMs despite journal policies limiting their use.

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Miryam Naddaf

Miryam Naddaf is a science writer based in London.

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An analysis of tens of thousands of research-paper submissions has shown a dramatic increase in the presence of text generated using artificial intelligence (AI) in the past few years, an academic publisher has found.

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doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-025-02936-6

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Emi, B. & Spero, M. Preprint at arXiv https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2402.14873 (2024).

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