Benjamin Skuse uses LLMs to fake IEEE papers

Publishers of peer-reviewed scholarship and volunteer editors at Wikipedia are currently battling a rising tide of AI-generated slop. Freelance writer Benjamin Skuse demonstrated that generating plausible fake scientific papers is effortless with advanced LLMs, while human gatekeepers and research-integrity checkers struggle to keep pace. The author argues that such uncertainty threatens to undermine the trustworthiness of the scientific record and institutional knowledge. Open article →