As a journal editor, this is mainly why my job now takes me triple the time. Please don’t have AI do your research. Or your editing. To quote Gaga, I want your ugly, I want your disease. I don’t want your polished slop with zero craft.
Catherine FletcherPublisher in this piece says “If an author has used AI to help support their research for a nonfiction book, that’s fine. But… that means that we now need together to apply another layer of human research to make sure that the facts are actually true.” So it’s not fine really, is it?