AI removes the reading friction that protected 'first to publish' norms, researcher argues
jd_pressman · x · 2026-09-18
jdpressman argues that academia's 'first to publish wins' convention has tracked merit well for 150+ years, partly because understanding others' work was hard enough that opportunists rarely bothered reading the literature to scoop it. AI removes that friction, exposing an old flaw in how credit is assigned.
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