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Guarding the Gates of Knowledge

As language models produce more convincing text with fewer obvious errors, scientific publishers and platforms like Wikipedia face a growing struggle to verify human authorship and maintain trust in the public record.

An IEEE Spectrum editorial introduces upcoming features on the challenge of keeping AI-generated content out of scientific publishing and Wikipedia. It notes an experiment by writer Benjamin Skuse testing IEEE's defenses with fake AI-written papers and an interview with a founder of WikiProject AI Cleanup.

  • IEEE
  • Wikipedia
  • Benjamin Skuse
  • Ellia Lebleu

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