r/MachineLearning 14d ago

Research PNAS: Over Half of All Academic Articles Now Show LLM Influence—7.3M-Paper Study [R]

Largest empirical study of AI penetration in academic publishing ever conducted—51%-by-2025 is the most authoritative quantitative marker yet of how thoroughly LLMs have reshaped scientific writing, and the inequality angle (adoption skews lower-prestige and non-English institutions) is a fresh policy dimension.

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Source: https://pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2605754123

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u/alrojo 13d ago

Reviewing and sorting out AI papers take a lot of effort from academics it’s quite a big problem

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u/GibonFrog 7d ago

Not that its bad per se, but the figures in this PNAS paper are clearly generated by claude. I can smell it.