Claim 46 · research-integrity · finding

Fortenbach et al. 2026 find that LLM-generated text is now common in ophthalmology: by 2025, 25.7% of sampled research articles and 21.6% of commentary articles carried AI-likelihood scores more than two standard deviations above baseline, and none of these outlier publications disclosed AI use.

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E17 states that by 2025, 25.7% of sampled research articles and 21.6% of commentary articles had AI-likelihood scores more than 2 standard deviations above baseline, and that AI use 'was not disclosed among any of the publications with outlier scores'.

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    “By 2025, 25.7% of sampled research articles and 21.6% of commentary articles contained AI-likelihood scores of more than 2 standard deviations above the baseline”

    Abstract · no page number · evidence E17

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    “Use of AI was not disclosed among any of the publications with outlier scores”

    Abstract · no page number · evidence E17