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The release of the AI-powered ChatGPT in late 2022 piqued the interest of https://thenewstack.io/just-out-of-the-box-chatgpt-causing-waves-of-talk-concern/ around the world, as they used the tool to instantly generate https://thenewstack.io/beware-chatgpt-a-language-model-in-the-shape-of-shakespeare/, or https://thenewstack.io/chatgpt-smart-but-not-smart-enough/. Similarly, that concern is echoed by those who do scientific research, who are concerned that powerful, https://thenewstack.io/ai-moves-to-the-web/ like ChatGPT may be used to write up research papers, some of which might be good enough to fool other scientists and academic institutions.

In generating the abstracts, ChatGPT was able to get some superficial details right, which helped lend an air of authenticity to the text.

The machine-generated text also fooled conventional plagiarism-detection tools, which rated the ChatGPT abstracts as having a median originality score of 100%.

Given its ability to generate abstracts with believable numbers, it could be used to entirely falsify research,” said the team.