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AI content is tainting preprints: how moderators are fighting back

Preprint servers are seeing a rise in submissions seemingly produced by paper mills or with help from AI tools.
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  1. Traci Watson

The preprint’s title — ‘Self-Experimental Report: Emergence of Generative AI Interfaces in Dream States’ — roused psychologist Olivia Kirtley’s suspicions.

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Nature 644, 590-591 (2025)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-025-02469-y

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