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Ghost in the Archive: When Machines Write, Machines Review, and We Merely Observe

2026-05-07

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<p>The rapid proliferation of Large Language Models (LLMs) has precipitated a profound crisis within the scientific community: a deluge of academic pollution characterized by synthetic papers that lack true empirical grounding (Martino et al., 2023). To combat this phenomenon, institutions have increasingly relied on Al detection tools; however, these tools primarily assess surface-level linguistic features, rende...

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DOI: 10.31222/osf.io/qwgsr_v1

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