Former neuroscientist Michał Wójcik is documenting peer-reviewed academic works, including book chapters sold by major publishers like Springer Nature and Elsevier, that contain AI-generated images, fabricated references, and nonsensical content. He shares these findings publicly on LinkedIn and Bluesky, including a widely mocked Cell Press paper by a self-described 'Professor for Exorcism' claiming evidence of an afterlife.
forbetterscience.com
· 2026-10-13
Researchers led by Rishanth Rajendhran at the University of Maryland have built a tool called IdeaLens that distinguishes human- from AI-generated ideas by analyzing a text's stripped-down outline rather than its wording or style. In tests described in a preprint, the detector correctly identified AI-derived ideas 91% of the time by spotting characteristic argument structures and flow.
nature.com
· 2026-10-13
OpenAI has published 722 mathematical research papers produced by its internal AI system, covering topics like number theory and algebraic geometry. The collection includes results related to three of the five Millennium Prize Problems, including the Riemann hypothesis, but the underlying proprietary model remains inaccessible. Researchers are now examining these proofs, though questions about their correctness and transparency persist.
techspot.com
· 2026-10-07
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