# Benjamin Skuse tests whether AI can fake a convincing scientific paper

> Original title: I Used AI to Fake a Scientific Paper. Here’s What Happened

- Source: IEEE Spectrum · AI
- Published: 2026-10-27T13:00:03.000Z
- Bad Influence: https://badinfluence.news/items/nrolz8x9jyhol2hqcdf01v8zm
- Original: https://spectrum.ieee.org/ai-generated-scientific-papers

## Summary

Benjamin Skuse used free ChatGPT and Gemini models to generate a fake optical solitons paper with no real research behind it. He then tested whether IEEE Access, an open-access journal, could detect it. The article cites estimates that 57 percent of 2025 academic articles showed detectable LLM influence, up from 12 percent in 2023.