'As of my last knowledge update', 'regenerate response', 'as an AI language model' ' these are just a few of the telltale signs of researchers' use of artificial intelligence (AI) that science-integrity watchers have found sprinkled through papers in the scholarly literature. Generative AI tools such as ChatGPT have quickly transformed academic publishing. Scientists are increasingly using them to prepare and review manuscripts, and publishers have scrambled to create guidelines for their ethical use. Although policies vary, many publishers require authors to disclose the use of AI in the preparation of scientific papers. But science sleuths have identified hundreds of cases in which AI tools seem to have been used without disclosure. In some cases, the papers have been silently corrected ' the hallmark AI phrases removed without acknowledgement. This type of quiet change is a potential threat to scientific integrity, say some researchers. Such changes have appeared in a 'small...
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