AI tools overhype research findings far more often than humans, with a study suggesting the newest bots are the worst offenders—particularly when they are specifically instructed not to exaggerate. Dutch and British researchers have found that AI summaries of scientific papers are much more likely than the original authors or expert reviewers to “overgeneralize” the results.
The analysis, reported in the journal Royal Society Open Science, suggests that AI summaries—purportedly designed to help spread scientific knowledge by rephrasing it in “easily understandable language”—tend to ignore “uncertainties, limitations and nuances” in the research by “omitting qualifiers” and “oversimplifying” the text. This is particularly “risky” when applied to medical research, the report warns. “If chatbots produce summaries that overlook qualifiers [about] the generalizability of clinical trial results, practitioners who rely on these chatbots may prescribe unsafe or inappropriate treatments.” ...
Full story at https://www.insidehighered.com/news/tech-innovation/artificial-intelligence/2025/04/24/ai-research-summaries-exaggerate-findings.
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