Researcher claims at least half of LLM-written papers are thinly veiled plagiarism that reviewers love
examachine · x · 2026-11-06
In a discussion, examachine argues that many LLM-written papers were clearly instructed to plagiarize a batch of existing papers with only a tiny delta, calling it the worst abuse of LLMs — he estimates at least half of such papers fit this pattern. He adds that reviewers now use LLMs to nitpick otherwise solid papers while championing these dumb copycat works.
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