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Artificial intelligence in the news
…href="https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2022.12.23.521610v1">recent paper suggested that humans incorrectly identify AI-generated journal abstracts in 14 per cent of the cases they were given. At the time of writing several tools have been made freely available (see an overview of four of them here). However, - News
Artificial intelligence and authorship
…users have pointed to examples where ChatGPT has misattributed or fabricated citations suggesting that its training data leans towards a fairly free and easy attitude to plagiarism. On the other hand, as it learns on more refined sets of… - Forum discussion topics
Artificial intelligence (AI) and fake papers
…various ethical questions surrounding the use of AI for both fake paper creation and the production of papers based on valid research. We aim to discuss the aspects of authorship, bias, originality, and using AI tools to counteract AI fraud. During this COPE Forum (23 March 2023) we started a discussion about these ethical issues, which COPE will use to develop a discussion document on this… - News
Allegations of Misconduct webinar summary, April 2019
…patients. There is no reason that the original paper could not have included the results of Tests A, B and C on those same patients. This would be “Salami Slicing”. Salami publication:Definitions and examples Vesna Šupak Smolčić. Biochemia Medica. 2013;23(3):137-141 Nancy Chescheir Q: What… - News
In the news: February Digest
…BioRXiv.org, a biology-focused preprint server, almost 2/3 from inception to 2016 were later published in peer-reviewed journals, the majority within 6 months of posting on the server. Upload rates are increasing (2,1000 per month), as are download rates (1.1 million in October 2018!). Preprints with most downloads are more likely to be downloaded in journal with highest impact factor. Seminars
…href="/files/u7141/Sharing%20information_COPE%20NA%20seminar_Charon%20Pierson_final.pdf">Download presentation [PDF, 512kB ] Presentations at the COPE 2014 Australian Seminar (Download PDF of the seminar programme) "Publication ethics from student to professional" The 2014 Australian Seminar was held on Monday 23 June 2014 at the Karstens Melbourne…