AI scandal rocks academia as nearly 200 studies are found to have been partly generated by ChatGPT 

• Some scientists have ChatGPT to write their papers, but the signs are obvious
• 'Paper mills' publish loads of low-quality scientific papers for a publication fee
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By PETER HESS FOR DAILYMAIL.COM

Academia was engulfed in scandal this week after research papers across dozens of academic journals were found to have been written by AI. 

An investigation found over 100 papers that were likely written, at least in part, by ChatGPT.

These papers slipped through because of lax or nonexistent peer-review processes at for-profit journals, stoking wider fears that the body of human scientific knowledge is being rapidly infiltrated by low-quality computer-generated garbage.

Many of these papers were published in obscure scientific journals, but news of this kind of scientific fraud hurts public trust in science, many scientists agree. Even before AI-generated text in scientific papers, so-called 'paper mills' have been pumping out low-quality and even plagiarized papers for years.

This article, published in the International Journal of New Media Studies, bears the telltale sign of being written by AI: 'As of my last knowledge update.'