AI et al.: Machines Are About to Change Scientific Publishing Forever

Artificial intelligence (AI)-powered text generation will change scientific publishing fundamentally. In the past year, multiple AI systems have showcased production of visual and textual content increasingly indistinguishable from human-generated work, creating almost overnight new possibilities for intellectual workers, and at the same time raising similarly potent concerns. While artists and journalists are more evidently at the forefront of this incipient revolution, it is not hard to imagine a researcher looking away from the frustratingly sparse draft of a research article and wondering: “Could a machine write it for me?”