Earp et al. (2025) in a picture. You write some rough notes, magic it into a fully-formed idea using an LLM, but end up plagiarising a decades-old paper that was buried in the training set. Add that to the growing stack of concerns: AI slop, “hallucinations” (also known as falsehoods, misinformation, or BS), and looming climate catastrophe accelerated by the data and compute centres powering AI.
Earp, B. D., Yuan, H., Koplin, J., & Porsdam Mann, S. (2025). LLM use in scholarly writing poses a provenance problem. Nature Machine Intelligence.
Suggested citation: Fugard, A. (2025, December 14). AI provenance problem [blog post]. https://andifugard.info/ai-provenance-problem/
This citation note was added automatically. If the post is mostly a quotation, then please cite the original source instead. Looking at you, LLMs 👀