{"id":173917,"date":"2023-10-10T12:26:45","date_gmt":"2023-10-10T17:26:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/10\/how-chatgpt-and-other-ai-tools-could-disrupt-scientific-publishing"},"modified":"2023-10-10T12:26:45","modified_gmt":"2023-10-10T17:26:45","slug":"how-chatgpt-and-other-ai-tools-could-disrupt-scientific-publishing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/10\/how-chatgpt-and-other-ai-tools-could-disrupt-scientific-publishing","title":{"rendered":"How ChatGPT and other AI tools could disrupt scientific publishing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/how-chatgpt-and-other-ai-tools-could-disrupt-scientific-publishing2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s never really the goal of anybody to write papers \u2014 it\u2019s to do science,\u201d says Michael Eisen, a computational biologist at the University of California, Berkeley, who is also editor-in-chief of the journal <i>eLife<\/i>. He predicts that generative AI tools could even fundamentally transform the nature of the scientific paper.<\/p>\n<p>But the spectre of inaccuracies and falsehoods threatens this vision. LLMs are merely engines for generating stylistically plausible output that fits the patterns of their inputs, rather than for producing accurate information. Publishers worry that a rise in their use might lead to greater numbers of poor-quality or error-strewn manuscripts \u2014 and possibly a flood of AI-assisted fakes.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnything disruptive like this can be quite worrying,\u201d says Laura Feetham, who oversees peer review for IOP Publishing in Bristol, UK, which publishes physical-sciences journals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cIt\u2019s never really the goal of anybody to write papers \u2014 it\u2019s to do science,\u201d says Michael Eisen, a computational biologist at the University of California, Berkeley, who is also editor-in-chief of the journal eLife. He predicts that generative AI tools could even fundamentally transform the nature of the scientific paper. But the spectre of [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-173917","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173917","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=173917"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173917\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=173917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=173917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=173917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}