Researcher Warns AI Slop Papers May Collapse Scientific Synthesis

Rex Douglass warned that the flood of AI-generated slop papers could shrink literature reviews to less than a year of coverage, undermining science's cumulative nature. He later argued the real issue is that our performative 'theater of doing science' is being drowned by fully automated output, sparking wide discussion.

2026-09-17 ~ 2026-09-17 · 2 related posts

• AI slop's real cost: literature reviews shrinking to under a year of scientific memory — RexDouglass · 2026-09-17
• The AI slop firehose is drowning 'a little stage play pretending to do science' — RexDouglass · 2026-09-17