Clare O’Farrell: 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
Updated 12 September 2026.
Callum Cant, James Muldoon, Mark Graham, Feeding the Machine. The Hidden Human Labor Powering A.I., Bloomsbury, 2024.
Kate Crawford, The Atlas of AI: Power, Politics, and the Planetary Costs of Artificial Intelligence, Yale University Press, 2021
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
Rainer Mühlhoff, The Ethics of AI. Power, Critique, Responsibility, Bristol University Press, 2025
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.
Jill Walker Rettberg, LLMs are metaphor machines: orbital argumentation, misaligned citations, and scientific fabrication in AI-generated writing. AI & Society (2026). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00146-026-03310-4
Jan-Philipp Siebold, Annemarie Witschas, Rainer Mühlhoff, 2026. “ When the Future Feels Foreclosed: AI Resignation and the Power to Act.” Future Humanities 4: e70026. https://doi.org/10.1002/fhu2.70026.
Petra Stock, The environmental cost of datacentres is rising. Is it time to quit AI?, The Guardian, 14 March 2026.
Michael Uebel & Bilal Hamamra, Authorship After Generative AI: Distributed Creativity and Relational Responsibility. Philosophy & Technology, 39, 152 (2026). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13347-026-01170-w
John Warner and Ben Williamson, Frankencitations Ravage the Academic Countryside, Inside Higher Ed, 6 May 2026.
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