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What happens to unpublished research once it’s typed into ChatGPT or Codex? A look at OpenAI’s public statements and terms and conditions to see what they cover, and what they leave unclear.

This issue is about AI writing: journal disclosure policies, authorship, watermarking, detection, a launch, some data on slop and hedging words, reflections on writing with AI and some longer reads.

I took a look at the preprint, Negligible participation in the scientific literature of AI unicorn startups, over the weekend and, whilst I think, who the hell am I to critique the work of John Ioannidis and team, I also think this is a weird preprint [1]. The study population is AI-related unicorns in 2025,

Here’s a simple exercise for testing Pangram on academic content. It takes around 15 minutes. You follow one passage through three stages: generated by AI, run through a humaniser, then copy-edited by another AI tool. Pangram 4 is harder to fool than earlier versions, but not that hard to fool.