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Re:Google Scholar search: "certainly, here is" -chatgpt -llm by daghamm on Sunday March 17, 2024 @07:44AM (#39733758)
Yes, this does happen.

But a quick browsing shows that not all these papers contain that phrase and not all that do seem to be machine generated.

Re:Google Scholar search: "certainly, here is" -chatgpt -llm by rzzzt on Sunday March 17, 2024 @07:51AM (#39733796)
First hit, in the keywords section (Ключевые слова): "methodology. Certainly / here is the English translation of the provided text"

Second hit: "Certainly! Here is a review of the literature on the carriage of goods under international commercial law:"

Third hit: "Certainly, here is the tabular representation of intraocular pressure (IOP) at 1 and 4 hours for Group X and Group Y:"

Fourth hit: "Certainly, here is a list of both Geo-natural and geosynthetic materials commonly used in civil engineering and environmental applications."

Fifth hit: "Certainly, here is a concise summary of the provided sections:"

Re:Google Scholar search: "certainly, here is" -chatgpt -llm by baobabKoodaa on Sunday March 17, 2024 @08:04AM (#39733878)
If you keep going, you will see that the list contains less than 10 "damning examples" like the ones you posted here. The remaining 740 entries do not appear to be ChatGPT-generated.
Re:Google Scholar search: "certainly, here is" -chatgpt -llm by tapland on Sunday March 17, 2024 @08:14AM (#39733916)
The translation isn't even necessarily damning. A lot of countries require publishing in the local language, and then you want it in english too.
Re:Google Scholar search: "certainly, here is" -chatgpt -llm by rzzzt on Sunday March 17, 2024 @08:21AM (#39733957)
Sixth hit: "Certainly, here is a list of various types of polymers:"

Seventh hit: <not found in paper or abstract>

Eighth hit: "Certainly, here is the essential information provided for reference to the proceedings of the conference on the topic of university book production:"

Ninth hit: "Certainly, here is the methodology for conducting a literature review on the attitudes of healthcare workers toward COVID-19 vaccination:"

Tenth hit: <paid access>

Eleventh hit: "Furthermore, to confirm the advantages of the new model, Certainly! Here is the rephrased sentence with improved language quality and clarity:"

I don't think that all results contain such wording, and surely daghamm's statement can't be disproven by listing these. But there is something that (also) rubs me the wrong way about these sentences getting into research papers.

Re:Google Scholar search: "certainly, here is" -chatgpt -llm by baobabKoodaa on Sunday March 17, 2024 @08:22AM (#39733966)
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Re:Google Scholar search: "certainly, here is" -chatgpt -llm by rzzzt on Sunday March 17, 2024 @08:39AM (#39734088)
Good for them and their readers.

Re-reading Simon's post, the only word that I think others might find contentous is "huge". Would it be better if it read the search expression turns up "a number" of papers, without a qualifier?

Re:Google Scholar search: "certainly, here is" -chatgpt -llm by baobabKoodaa on Sunday March 17, 2024 @09:00AM (#39734202)
I made a mistake when I switched from the French version to English version of Google Scholar. Sorry. You are correct.
Re:Google Scholar search: "certainly, here is" -chatgpt -llm by ffpip on Sunday March 17, 2024 @07:53AM (#39733811)
Certainly, here is a reply to danhamm's comment to prove that he might be wrong.

I randomly picked 10 articles and all of them had the phrase in a manner that indicated it was directly pasted from ChatGPT.

Re:Google Scholar search: "certainly, here is" -chatgpt -llm by baobabKoodaa on Sunday March 17, 2024 @08:05AM (#39733881)
Out of the 750 articles listed, 90% of those were written before 2020 (before ChatGPT was released). You claim that you picked 10 out of these 750 articles at random, and all 10 of them contained very obvious ChatGPT artifacts. Even if we assume 100% of articles written after 2020 have been generated with ChatGPT, your claim is completely implausible. It would require you to randomly land on after-2020 article 10 times out of 10 (quick napkin math: 0.1^10).

In summary: you are lying.

Re:Google Scholar search: "certainly, here is" -chatgpt -llm by Jabbles on Sunday March 17, 2024 @08:39AM (#39734086)
The link in the post already has a filter after 2023:

https://scholar.google.fr/scholar?hl=fr&as_sdt=0%2C5&as_ylo=...

Re:Google Scholar search: "certainly, here is" -chatgpt -llm by baobabKoodaa on Sunday March 17, 2024 @08:56AM (#39734182)
Sorry! My mistake!
Re:Google Scholar search: "certainly, here is" -chatgpt -llm by karencarits on Sunday March 17, 2024 @07:48AM (#39733778)
Indeed, you also get a considerable number of results when limiting the search to publications from before 2020
Re:Google Scholar search: "certainly, here is" -chatgpt -llm by 10c8 on Sunday March 17, 2024 @08:00AM (#39733844)
If you actually take time to go and read through them, you can see that the writing pattern is clearly different to that of ChatGPT, contrary to the recent ones:

- "[...] Certainly here is a vast and important project for research."

Versus:

- "Certainly! Here is the text with spaces added after each word:"