ChatGPT writes convincing fake scientific abstracts that fool reviewers in study

Nanowerk  January 16, 2023 A team of researchers in the US (Northwestern University, University of Chicago) took titles from recent papers from high-impact journals and asked ChatGPT to generate abstracts. They ran these generated abstracts and the original abstracts through a plagiarism detector and AI output detector, and had blinded human reviewers try to differentiate between generated and original abstracts. Each reviewer was given 25 abstracts that were a mixture of the generated and original abstracts and asked them to give a binary score of what they thought the abstract was. They could only spot ChatGPT generated abstracts 68% of […]