I'm grateful to have been in (asynchronous) communication with @kylesiler.bsky.social about his important paper, "The diffusion of large language models in published academic articles." A colleague and I had comments; Siler had great responses. Read his insightful work and the…
- By 2025 roughly 57% of articles across 7.3 million sampled papers showed LLM-associated language, up from about 12% in 2023.
- The study, by Kyle Siler of the University of Toronto in PNAS, spans full texts from Elsevier, Frontiers, MDPI, and PLoS from 2020 to 2025.
- Lower-ranked institutions, young for-profit publishers, and regions further from English as a primary language showed the highest LLM-associated language rates.