Risks of abuse of large language models, like ChatGPT, in scientific publishing: Authorship, predatory publishing, and paper mills

Abstract

• Academia is already witnessing the abuse of authorship in papers with text generated by large language models (LLMs) such as ChatGPT.
• LLM-generated text is testing the limits of publishing ethics as we traditionally know it.
• We alert the community to imminent risks of LLM technologies, like ChatGPT, for amplifying the predatory publishing ‘industry’.
• The abuse of ChatGPT for the paper mill industry cannot be over-emphasized.
• Detection of LLM-generated text is the responsibility of editors and journals/publishers.