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Everything We Write About Verification May Be Treating a Symptom
Detection tools, disclosure rules, verification checklists — this site has covered all of them. Research integrity experts increasingly argue they address the…
A Global AI Disclosure Standard Is Being Written Right Now. You Have Until 16 October to Shape It.
Five research bodies are drafting the Vancouver Standard — a shared framework for disclosing AI use in research. The second consultation round…
AI Research Agents Break Integrity Rules — and the Papers They Produce Look Fine
A Carnegie Mellon team examined two autonomous research agents and found they violated research norms in ways invisible in the final manuscript.…
Access to Frontier AI for Research Is Now Being Allocated by Lottery
OpenAI received applications representing up to 65,000 researcher seats for an initial 10,000-seat cohort. Selection is by lottery among eligible applicants —…
Peer Review Was Never Checking Your References. Here Is Who Should Be.
Reviewers do not verify citations, and were never asked to. Publishers could automate the check at submission for almost nothing. Until they…
Where AI Actually Helps in a Literature Review — and Where It Quietly Costs You
AI is genuinely good at some stages of a literature review and actively harmful at others. The difference is not about tool…
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