LLM-use acknowledgments rise in preprints across scientific fields
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Epoch AI reports that acknowledgments of large language model use in biology preprints have grown exponentially since 2023.
By September, 17% of biology preprints acknowledged LLM use, close to the 19% that acknowledged specialized AI tools.
The report covers biology only in the material provided. The story's title also names physics, statistics and math, but the reports reviewed here contain no figures for those fields.
Written by AI from the articles below · updated Oct 30, 4:03 PM ET
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- Oct 30, 3:41 PM ET · 1 articleEpoch AI reports rising LLM-use acknowledgments in preprints across biology, physics, statistics and mathEpoch AI: Epoch AI tracks rising LLM use acknowledgments in research preprints
- Oct 30, 3:41 PM ET · 1 articleEpoch AI reports growing LLM acknowledgments in biology preprintsEpoch AI: LLM acknowledgments in biology preprints rise to 17% since 2023
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Epoch AI@EpochAIResearchOfficialEpoch AI tracks rising LLM use acknowledgments in research preprintsAIEpoch AI launches an explorer that tracks acknowledgments of LLM use in preprints across biology, physics, statistics, and math. The acknowledgments are increasing in all four fields. A full Data Insight and methodology by Tara Abrishami accompanies the tool.
Epoch AI@EpochAIResearchOfficialLLM acknowledgments in biology preprints rise to 17% since 2023AIEpoch AI reports that acknowledgments of large language model use in biology preprints have grown exponentially since 2023. By September, 17% of preprints acknowledged LLM use, nearly matching the 19% that acknowledged specialized AI tools.

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