AI tool xFakeSci achieves 94% accuracy in identifying fake research papers

Researchers have developed a tool that could tell apart an original research article from one created by AI-chatbots, including ChatGPT.

In a set of 300 fake and real scientific papers, the AI-based tool, named ‘xFakeSci’, detected up to 94 per cent of the fake ones.

This was nearly twice the success rate seen among the more common data-mining techniques, the authors from the State University of New York, US, and Hefei University of Technology, China, said.