Kobak et al. (2025) argue their method avoids reliance on ground-truth LLM-generated text, which may not represent real scholarly LLM use, and that extending it to earlier years lets them place LLM effects in historical context against events like COVID-19.
E3 states prior studies relied on ground-truth LLM texts that may be unrepresentative, and that applying the method to earlier years allowed historical comparison with COVID-19.
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“our analysis avoids this limitation by detecting emerging LLM fingerprints directly from published abstracts.”
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“comparing the influence of LLMs to the influence of the COVID-19 pandemic”
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