I would argue peer review is an important, albeit imperfect, barrier to stem this tide, but preprint repositories serve to supercharge this problem.
Andreas Bäumler
Academic publishing is facing a major crisis with AI slop. Journal editors are being flooded with AI-generated submissions that are almost impossible to detect. It is getting harder it is for human reviewers to filter out the noise.
Journal editors and peer reviewers are being flooded with AI-generated papers that are almost impossible to detect.
