Editor: I have added the following statement to the About page on Foucault News.
Statement about generative AI
I do not support the outsourcing of research and writing to generative AI. This is sometimes (often) very hard to detect. If you notice posts on work that falls into this category, please let me know. The use of grammar and translation software by non native speakers is not included in this category – as long as the original words were authored by a human writer/researcher.
References
Callum Cant, James Muldoon, Mark Graham, Feeding the Machine. The Hidden Human Labor Powering A.I., Bloomsbury, 2024.
Kate Crawford, Generative AI’s environmental costs are soaring — and mostly secret, Nature 626, 693 (2024) https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-024-00478-x
Sharon Kabel, A bibliography of genAI-fueled research fraud from 2025. Sharon Kabel’s blog, 23 December 2025.
Dmitry Kobak et al. Delving into LLM-assisted writing in biomedical publications through excess vocabulary, Science Advances, vol 7, Issue 27 (2025). DOI:10.1126/sciadv.adt3813
Steven Gonzalez Monserrate, The Cloud Is Material: On the Environmental Impacts of Computation and Data Storage, MIT Case Studies in Social and Ethical Responsibilities of Computing, Winter (January) 2022. https://doi.org/10.21428/2c646de5.031d4553
James Muldoon interviewed by Sabrina Provenzani, AI is an extraction machine. But resistance is possible, The Citizens, 17 September 2024.
Retraction Watch, Tracking retractions as a window into the scientific process.
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