Graph of the frequency of various terms, showing steady values for "innovative" and "versatile" but big spikes for "commendable", "meticulous", "intricate"

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   Andrew (generalising@mastodon.flooey.org)'s status on Wednesday, 27-Mar-2024 06:42:45 JST Andrew

   I have a preprint out estimating how many scholarly papers are written using chatGPT etc? I estimate upwards of 60k articles (>1% of global output) published in 2023. https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.16887

   How can we identify this? Simple: there are certain words that LLMs love, and they suddenly start showing up *a lot* last year. Twice as many papers call something "intricate", big rises for "commendable" and "meticulous".

   #bibliometrics #scholcomm #chatgpt