India, Dec. 19 -- A study analysing over one million preprint abstracts finds AI use sharply increases academic productivity

Gains are highest among non-native English speakers, particularly Asian researchers

AI-written papers use more complex language but are less likely to be published in journals

Researchers warn that "scientific AI slop" is undermining language as a marker of scholarly merit

Over the past three years, generative artificial intelligence (AI) has had a profound impact on society. AI's impact on human writing, in particular, has been enormous.

The large language models that power AI tools such as ChatGPT are trained on a wide variety of textual data, and they can now produce complex and high-quality texts of their o...