Science Integrity News Today

“A coincidence of interests is always more powerful than a conspiracy.”

(1) IN THE BEGINNING. Philip Athans asks everyone, “Don’t Be Hatin’ On Prologues (Again)” at Fantasy Author’s Handbook. … Anyway, once again we’re being told that all prologues are bad, no books should ever have a prologue, and all authors who write prologues are bad, and anyway, it’s best to just skip over them if

Researchers used Midjourney’s AI image generators to illustrate the fantastical rodent beside incoherent strings of text.

Ethics watchdogs are looking out for potentially undisclosed use of generative AI in scientific writing. But there’s no foolproof way to catch it all yet.