arXiv AI By Lena Holzwarth, Rita Gonz\'alez-M\'arquez, Dmitry Kobak

Most biomedical publications show signs of LLM-assisted writing

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arXiv:2608. 10715v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Over the past several years, LLM-powered chatbots and agents have become widely used as a tool for academic writing.

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