Academic journals, archives, and repositories are seeing an increasing number of questionable research papers clearly produced using generative AI. They are often created with widely available, general-purpose AI applications, most likely ChatGPT, and mimic scientific writing. Google Scholar easily locates and lists these questionable papers alongside reputable, quality-controlled research. Our analysis of a selection of
Media and techsimps praise a bundle of code that can spew garbage with a dash of plagiarism. Ted from my college comp class does the same, but all he got was a failing grade.