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“A plausible paper can now be produced in a day, and the process of producing it does not necessarily enhance knowledge, build a resource, train a student, or advance any other goal of biology research.”

Ran Blekhman@blekhman.bsky.social

Some of my thoughts about the surge in AI-generated papers, why this feels like a completely new kind of problem, and what this means for how we evaluate science in biology. Out now in PLOS Biology: journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...

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