When a Prompt Yields Publishable Work, How Should Journals Respond?
JJitsev · x · 2026-09-20
A researcher raises the question: when prompting "go solve an unresolved problem and make a breakthrough" can produce valid, valuable work, the scientific community must figure out how to handle journal and conference submissions — along with a flood of AI output with no value at all. A concrete signal of AI straining academic publishing integrity.
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