"That might not be a bad thing" is the article's debatable subtitle:
Certainly, here is a possible introduction for your topic...” began a recent article in Surfaces and Interfaces, a scientific journal. Attentive readers might have wondered who exactly that bizarre opening line was addressing. They might also have wondered whether the ensuing article, on the topic of battery technology, was written by a human or a machine.

It is a question ever more readers of scientific papers are asking. Large language models (llms) are now more than good enough to help write a scientific paper. They can breathe life into dense scientific prose and speed up the drafting process...
https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/2024/06/26/at-least-10-of-research-may-already-be-co-authored-by-ai