Thus far, even AI companies have had trouble coming up with tools that can reliably detect when a piece of writing was generated using a large language model. Now, a group of researchers has established a novel method for estimating LLM usage across a large set of scientific writing by measuring which “excess words” started showing up much more frequently during the LLM era (i.e., 2023 and 2024). The results “suggest that at least 10 percent of 2024 abstracts were processed with LLMs,” according to the researchers.
In a preprint paper posted earlier this month, four researchers from Germany’s University of Tübingen and Northwestern
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