What counts as plagiarism? AI-generated papers pose new risks

Min was quoted in the news feature on Nature Communications: “The important thing is these [AI] tools are going to be here. We need to find the right way of using them”.

In a Nature news feature on “What counts as plagiarism? AI-generated papers pose new risks”, writer Ananya quoted joint research work from WING; our collaboration with Univ. of Siegen’s Dr. Joeran Beel on Sakana’s AI Scientist and its promises, challenges and implications for Information Retrieval research.

Read our original pre-print here: Evaluating Sakana’s AI Scientist for Autonomous Research: Wishful Thinking or an Emerging Reality Towards ‘Artificial Research Intelligence’ (ARI)?.

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Min-Yen Kan
Min-Yen Kan
Associate Professor

WING lead; interests include Digital Libraries, Information Retrieval and Natural Language Processing.