A 2023 study found ChatGPT inventing many of the references it listed. A tidy citation is not proof that a paper exists, and checking it is still our job.

A 2023 experiment showed ChatGPT makes professional writing faster. Science should be careful about treating that speed as progress.

A small MIT study found that people who let ChatGPT write their essays remembered little of them. That is a real cost for learning, and it is not brain damage.