The AI ‘Ghosts’ Contaminating Academic Publishing
beSpacific 2026-08-27
Summary:
404 Media: ““Elena Vasquez and Marcus Chen have appeared as volcano experts, astronauts, thriller protagonists, podcast hosts, and academic co-authors across hundreds of independently produced AI-generated documents, never having lived,” a new preprint research paper from Samsung and the University of Warsaw said. The paper identified a number of names that co-authored hundreds of AI-generated ...