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Qingde Shi
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Macao Polytechnic University, Macau, China.
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Jinlei Nie
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Macao Polytechnic University, Macau, China.
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Zhaowei Kong
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University of Macau, Macau, China.
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Nature’s report on artificial-intelligence tools being used to detect long-standing errors in scientific papers illustrates that retrospective scrutiny is possible (see Nature 656, 278–279; 2026). Such checks would be more robust if the tools had access to the original files.
Nature 658, 834 (2026)
doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-026-03244-3
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The authors declare no competing interests.
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