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Two of your recent news articles highlight misaligned incentives in the marketplace of ideas. First, hundreds of evaluations of papers submitted to a leading AI conference were copied and pasted from large language models (see Nature 652, 281–282; 2026). Second, a substantial proportion of recent publications in social science failed to replicate (see Nature https://doi.org/q3zf; 2026).
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Nature 652, 1420 (2026)
doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-026-01368-0
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