Yes, this does happen.
But a quick browsing shows that not all these papers contain that phrase and not all that do seem to be machine generated.
But a quick browsing shows that not all these papers contain that phrase and not all that do seem to be machine generated.
Second hit: "Certainly! Here is a review of the literature on the carriage of goods under international commercial law:"
Third hit: "Certainly, here is the tabular representation of intraocular pressure (IOP) at 1 and 4 hours for Group X and Group Y:"
Fourth hit: "Certainly, here is a list of both Geo-natural and geosynthetic materials commonly used in civil engineering and environmental applications."
Fifth hit: "Certainly, here is a concise summary of the provided sections:"
Seventh hit: <not found in paper or abstract>
Eighth hit: "Certainly, here is the essential information provided for reference to the proceedings of the conference on the topic of university book production:"
Ninth hit: "Certainly, here is the methodology for conducting a literature review on the attitudes of healthcare workers toward COVID-19 vaccination:"
Tenth hit: <paid access>
Eleventh hit: "Furthermore, to confirm the advantages of the new model, Certainly! Here is the rephrased sentence with improved language quality and clarity:"
I don't think that all results contain such wording, and surely daghamm's statement can't be disproven by listing these. But there is something that (also) rubs me the wrong way about these sentences getting into research papers.
Re-reading Simon's post, the only word that I think others might find contentous is "huge". Would it be better if it read the search expression turns up "a number" of papers, without a qualifier?
I randomly picked 10 articles and all of them had the phrase in a manner that indicated it was directly pasted from ChatGPT.
https://scholar.google.fr/scholar?hl=fr&as_sdt=0%2C5&as_ylo=...
- "[...] Certainly here is a vast and important project for research."
Versus:
- "Certainly! Here is the text with spaces added after each word:"