Tracking single-author papers is the best marker of AI's academic takeover
generativist · x · 2026-11-03
Generativist argues that tracking the prevalence of single-author papers is the strongest diagnostic marker of AI's infiltration into academia — if AI increasingly carries the research workload, the share of solo-authored papers would directly reflect it.
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