Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Assistant professor Frank Cackowski, left, and researcher Steven Zielske at Wayne State University in Detroit became suspicious of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Assistant professor Frank Cackowski, left, and researcher Steven Zielske at Wayne State University in Detroit became suspicious of ...

That changed in late 2025 when cutting-edge “frontier” AI models became capable of reasoning and planning reliably by themselves. A key feature of these models is “tool calling” – the ability to ...

Scientists Warn AI Slop Is Wreaking Havoc in the Research World ...

Researchers analysed the use of large language models in over a million pre-print and published scientific papers between 2020 and 2024, and found the largest, fastest growth in use of the AI systems ...

The number of scientific papers flagged as fraudulent has been growing. Now a new paper sheds light on how it’s being done. Researchers found loose networks of unscrupulous editors working with ...

A surge in AI-generated hallucinated citations has infiltrated scientific literature, with over 146,000 fabricated references ...

Millions of scientific papers are published globally every year. These papers in science, technology, engineering, mathematics, and medicine present discoveries that range from the mundane to the ...

Some companies are working to remedy the issue. Some AI chatbots rely on flawed research from retracted scientific papers to answer questions, according to recent studies. The findings, confirmed by ...

SINGAPORE, SG / ACCESS Newswire / May 20, 2026 / WisPaper, an AI-powered academic research agent, today highlighted scientific research as an important application area for AI agents. As platforms ...

Fraudulent scientific research is now being produced and published on a large scale, with some unethical researchers colluding with unethical editors to attain the prestige that comes with publication ...