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German researchers say LLM writing tools were "unprecedented in both quality and quantity" They found that the appearance of LLMs led to an abrupt increase in the frequency of certain style words.
The researchers analyzed 14 million paper abstracts published on PubMed between 2010 and 2024 .
They found a number of words that were extremely uncommon in these abstracts before 2023 suddenly surged in popularity after LLMs were introduced.
Detecting LLM use is important, researchers say, because "LLMs are infamous for making up references, providing inaccurate summaries, and making false claims that sound authoritative and convincing" But as knowledge of LLMs' telltale marker words starts to spread, human editors may get better at taking those words out of generated text.
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