NBER Study: Nearly 30% of US STEM PhD Dissertation Abstracts Show AI-generated Traces

An NBER working paper by Daniel P. Gross et al. finds that nearly 30% of US STEM PhD dissertation abstracts show signs of AI generation, with the affected abstracts typically running 300 to 1000 words.

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