When low-quality papers cost nothing to make, how do we price in reputational cost?
Aaroth · x · 2026-09-10
The author argues that since AI has driven the cost of producing low-quality papers to near zero, the publication system must now raise the cost of submitting them — most easily by imposing reputational costs on low-quality work.
The post ends with an open question about how to implement this, opening a discussion on peer review and academic quality governance in the AI era.
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