{"id":334,"date":"2025-07-07T13:07:13","date_gmt":"2025-07-07T13:07:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quizlab.ai\/blog\/?p=334"},"modified":"2025-07-31T18:45:57","modified_gmt":"2025-07-31T18:45:57","slug":"in-some-fields-40-of-science-papers-are-written-by-ai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quizlab.ai\/blog\/in-some-fields-40-of-science-papers-are-written-by-ai\/","title":{"rendered":"Up to 40% of science papers are authored by AI"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.science.org\/doi\/10.1126\/sciadv.adt3813?utm_campaign=Science&amp;utm_medium=ownedSocial&amp;utm_source=facebook&amp;fbclid=IwY2xjawLYlM5leHRuA2FlbQIxMABicmlkETF3aG03M3ZPSWE5ZFJLdjQ4AR5A8_tZNiSKhf1-im1cg_xOObGrWHCsJ09Idxq8EhuEU_4PpnZpBuNXMFR8zQ_aem_BVpHsp1X11lairVU2ZS4EA\">newly published study<\/a> indicates that up to 40% of medical studies are now written using LLMs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The study sifted through 15 million biomedical abstracts published 2010\u20132024 looking for LLM &#8220;fingerprints&#8221; like excess words, IE words that appeared with much greater frequency from one period to the next. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;This excess word analysis suggests that at least 13.5% of 2024 abstracts were processed with LLMs. This lower bound differed across disciplines, countries, and journals, reaching 40% for some subcorpora.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I must say, these crucial charts were significant\u00a0and had potential to shock readers! <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"874\" data-src=\"https:\/\/quizlab.ai\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/image-1-1024x874.png\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP\/\/\/yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-335 lazyload\"\/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"874\" src=\"https:\/\/quizlab.ai\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/image-1-1024x874.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-335\" srcset=\"https:\/\/quizlab.ai\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/image-1-1024x874.png 1024w, https:\/\/quizlab.ai\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/image-1-300x256.png 300w, https:\/\/quizlab.ai\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/image-1-768x656.png 768w, https:\/\/quizlab.ai\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/image-1-1536x1311.png 1536w, https:\/\/quizlab.ai\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/image-1-2048x1749.png 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/noscript><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The study ends by noting: &#8220;We did not use any LLMs for writing or editing the manuscript.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Meanwhile, on Bluesky some academics are loudly professing their AI-abstinence and\/or abhorance. See this <a href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/iansociologo.bsky.social\/post\/3lslmgbxugs2m\">thread<\/a>, which started with the following slide that an academic says he now includes whenever he presents at a conference: <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" data-src=\"https:\/\/quizlab.ai\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/image-2-1024x576.png\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP\/\/\/yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-344 lazyload\"\/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/quizlab.ai\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/image-2-1024x576.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-344\" srcset=\"https:\/\/quizlab.ai\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/image-2-1024x576.png 1024w, https:\/\/quizlab.ai\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/image-2-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/quizlab.ai\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/image-2-768x432.png 768w, https:\/\/quizlab.ai\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/image-2-1536x864.png 1536w, https:\/\/quizlab.ai\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/image-2.png 1600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/noscript><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A newly published study indicates that up to 40% of medical studies are now written using LLMs. The study sifted through 15 million biomedical abstracts published 2010\u20132024 looking for LLM &#8220;fingerprints&#8221; like excess words, IE words that appeared with much greater frequency from one period to the next. &#8220;This excess word analysis suggests that at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-334","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ai-content","category-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quizlab.ai\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quizlab.ai\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quizlab.ai\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quizlab.ai\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quizlab.ai\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=334"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/quizlab.ai\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":379,"href":"https:\/\/quizlab.ai\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334\/revisions\/379"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quizlab.ai\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quizlab.ai\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quizlab.ai\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}