Analysis reveals AI's potential to improve evidence synthesis quality while addressing the issue of problematic papers.
The publication of ever-larger numbers of problematic papers, including fake ones generated by artificial intelligence, represents an existential crisis for the established way of doing evidence synthesis. But with a new approach, AI might also save the day.
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