A widely cited 2025 meta-analysis claiming ChatGPT improves student learning was just retracted by Springer Nature in a two-sentence note plus a non-responsive-author disclosure. The methodological case against it had been public for the entire year between publication and retraction. Where's the publisher transparency, and where's the cost to the authors?
https://benjaminhan.net/posts/20260507-chatgpt-education-retraction/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social
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