Artificial intelligence was supposed to accelerate discovery, but a growing number of researchers say it is flooding science with junk. Instead of careful experiments and hard-won insights, they ...

OpenAI announced a new AI agent called Deep Research on Sunday. The AI agent surfs the web, finds sources, and writes a research paper complete with tables and bullet points based on a prompt. The ...

Writing academic assignments at university can be stressful, especially if it is your first time preparing a full research paper. Many African students face real barriers: limited access to digital ...

There’s sloppy science, and there’s AI slop science. In an ironic twist of fate, beleaguered AI researchers are warning that the field is being choked by a deluge of shoddy academic papers written ...