A 2024 study found that AI-written lay summaries made scientists look more trustworthy in one experiment and helped readers follow the science in another. Clear writing still has to be checked for accuracy.

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.

In 2023, seven popular AI detectors labelled more than half of a set of TOEFL essays by non-native English writers as machine-made. A detector score can start a conversation. It should never end one.