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I Used AI to Fake a Scientific Paper. Here’s What Happened

An IEEE Spectrum reporter used free ChatGPT and Gemini, then the autonomous research system FARS, to generate two papers and submitted them to IEEE Access to test publisher defenses. Both were caught, but the experiment shows AI-generated papers can look convincing while peer review buckles under pressure.

SourceIEEE Spectrum AIAuthor: Benjamin Skuse
I Used AI to Fake a Scientific Paper. Here’s What Happened
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  • Free general-purpose LLMs can produce superficially credible papers describing research that never happened, with fabricated references as the main giveaway
  • The autonomous system FARS went from literature review to submission-ready manuscript in hours, but betrayed itself through heavy preprint reliance and garbled figures
  • Academic publishing faces a flood of AI slop and a shrinking pool of volunteer reviewers, while detection tools struggle to keep pace with advancing AI

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