![Rachel Sweeney standing at a podium, speaking and gesturing to a screen that reads, "[Real] electronic messages between meta employees."](https://datascience.scholar.bucknell.edu/files/2025/10/IMG_3544-1024x768.jpg)
On Monday, September 29th, 2025, Rachel Sweeney (Scholarly Communications & Copyright Librarian) led a lecture and discussion with a group of faculty and staff around artificial intelligence in scholarly communications. This event was co-sponsored by Bertrand Library and the Dominguez Center for Data Science.
Sweeney’s talk centered on the common pitfalls of AI in scholarly communications: AI generating fake citations, the increase in “paper mill” scholarship created by AI, concerns about copyright infringement when AI generates content based on copyrighted materials, and arguments about whether or not that generated content constitutes transformative fair use. She also touched on qualifications for research that make it better suited incorporation of AI and the legal implications of the positive and negative aspects of those uses. The following discussion centered around the pitfalls of AI detection and the blurry lines around appropriate uses of AI in work and creative scholarship.
Want to learn more? View the full set of slides below and contact Rachel Sweeney at rs080@Bucknell.edu.