1+ day, 15+ hour ago  (494+ words) Wikipedia tightens rules on AI, banning AI-generated content due to concerns about incorrect facts and fake references. Editors cannot use large language models like Chat GPT to write or rewrite articles, but exceptions allow for translation and non-substantive edits. Human…...

2+ day, 29+ min ago  (660+ words) Staff writer Sadie Harlan ruminates on the harm in replacing traditional search engines with AI. It's 2012, and students stand single-file in front of their local elementary school's computer lab. For some youths in the mid-2000s, this so-called class is an hour…...

2+ day, 4+ hour ago  (229+ words) We've been experimenting with using LLMs to help identify and prioritize research for Unjournal evaluation, to work with and complement human prioritization (and learn). We now have a public prototype dashboard. It's early stage and needs refinement we have not…...

2+ day, 13+ hour ago  (567+ words) Get the latest news from Retraction Watch and beyond Monday through Friday, plus Weekend Reads each Saturday. BMJ's Journal of Medical Genetics has retracted the bulk of a seven-year-old special issue for an "irreparably compromised" review process and "improbable device…...

2+ week, 1+ day ago  (317+ words) Nitish Pahwa: How long have you been thinking about how to tackle A. I. across Wikipedia? But the burden kept increasing. We had to set up a new system to track all of the A. I. issues. Half of our administrative discussions were focused…...

6+ day, 13+ hour ago  (1964+ words) How do we know what we know? That's where science comes in'it gives us a method for testing our ideas and getting trustworthy results. But some researchers have warned that many scientific studies can't be replicated. To find out how…...

2+ week, 3+ hour ago  (241+ words) A comprehensive seven-year project in the US analyzed 3, 900 claims from research papers in social sciences, revealing that approximately half were precisely reproducible. The study highlights the 'reproducibility crisis' affecting scientific credibility in these fields, urging improved analytical robustness and replication…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago  (497+ words) Results from a massive research project investigating whether previously reported scientific results can be replicated raises questions about their reliability. A major, new examination of the replicability and reliability of published social and behavioral science experiments has found that only…...

2+ week, 2+ day ago  (341+ words) A massive seven-year project exploring 3, 900 social-science papers has ended with a disturbing finding: researchers could replicate the results of only half of the studies that they tested1. Read a related News & Views: "Huge meta-research project puts claims in social-science papers to…...

4+ day, 4+ hour ago  (358+ words) Frontiers released unique-in-publishing AI guidance covering the entire publication lifecycle " from researchers to editors and peer reviewers " moving beyond simplistic "allowed / not allowed" rules toward practical, responsible routes for AI adoption, while calling for policy to evolve in step with…...