AI in Scientific Writing: Opportunity, Risk, and Responsibility

About this episode

The episode discusses the implications of generative AI tools in scientific writing, focusing on the risks of fabricated citations.

Send us Fan Mail A citation can be polished, specific, and completely fake and that’s the scary part. We sit down with Morna Conway, PhD, Scholarly Journal Consultant and JAVMA and AJVR Copy Editor Vic Schultz to unpack how generative AI tools like ChatGPT can hallucinate references, remixing real author names, familiar journal titles, and plausible article wording into sources that simply do not exist. If you write, review, edit, or read scientific articles in veterinary medicine, this conve...

People in this episode

Guests: Morna Conway, Vic Schultz

Topics covered

• AI in scientific writing
• generative AI
• vet medicine
• academic integrity
• hallucination in AI

Keywords

• AI
• scientific writing
• ChatGPT
• vet medicine
• academic publishing

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: JAVMA, AJVR

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