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In its August edition, Resources Policy, an academic journal under the Elsevier publishing umbrella, featured a peer-reviewed study about how ecommerce has affected fossil fuel efficiency in developing nations..
The studys three listed authors had names and university or institutional affiliationsthey did not appear to be AI language models..
And now, peer-reviewed academic journals are grappling with submissions in which the authors may have used generative AI to write outlines, drafts, or even entire papers, but failed to make the AI use clear.. Journals are taking a patchwork approach to the problem..
But the techwhen used in many kinds of writinghas also dropped fake references into its responses, made things up, and reiterated sexist and racist content from the internet, all of which would be problematic if included in published scientific writing...
The Resources Policy paper caught a researchers attention because the authors seem to have accidentally left behind a clue to a large language models possible involvement..
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