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The epistemic debt of generative AI

Nature Machine Intelligence, Published online: 26 August 2026; doi:10.1038/s42256-026-01294-w When authors use generative AI in cognitive tasks, without spending time and effort to understand the output, a gap opens between what they present and what they can defend. This gap widens as further work is built on top, resulting in epistemic debt.

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