OpenAI has launched Prism, a free artificial intelligence-based workspace for scientific researchers. The initiative has immediately raised concerns about the potential proliferation of low-quality scientific articles.

Prism Features

Prism integrates with OpenAI's GPT-5.2 model and offers a LaTeX-based text editor, a standard widely used for typesetting scientific documents. Features include drafting articles, generating citations, creating diagrams from sketches, and real-time collaboration between authors.

Concerns of the scientific community

Despite its potential, Prism has generated skepticism among researchers. The main fear is that such a tool could accelerate the production of "AI slop", i.e. automatically generated content of dubious scientific validity, exacerbating an existing problem in the world of academic publications.

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