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ChatGPT writes the first sentence of an ElsevierConnect article.

July 30th, 2024, by Guy Harris

AI and LLMs have arrived and academic publishing has been changed forever. Most journals accept the use of AI. Elsevier, for example, states:

"Our policies are clear that LLMs can be used in the drafting of papers as long as it is declared by the authors on submission."

But accidents are bound to occur. Here, X (Twitter) user Guillaume Cabanac (@gcabanac) finds a ChatGPT response in a published paper:

So #ChatGPT wrote the first sentence of this @ElsevierConnect article. Any other parts of the article too? How come none of the coauthors, Editor-in-Chief, reviewers, typesetters noticed? How can this happen with regular peer-review?

As of writing, the journal has not retracted the text: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S2468023024002402

X user Erdinç Saçan @erdincsacan finds another example:

Such problems are inevitable in the early stage of the new era of AI-assisted writing. But still, why did no one spot these errors all the way through the writing, review and publication process?