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Re:AI tools are spotting errors in research papers: inside a... by kkylin on Saturday March 08, 2025 @11:27AM (#43301348)
Every tool cuts both ways. This won't remove the need for people to be good, but hopefully reduces the scale of the problems to the point where good people (and better systems) can manage.

FWIW while fraud gets headlines, unintentional errors and simply crappy writing are much more common and bigger problems I think. As reviewer and editor I often feel I'm the first one (counting the authors) to ever read the paper beginning to end: inconsistent notation & terminology, unnecessary repetitions, unexplained background material, etc.

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