Is There Any Point in Publishing Peer-Reviewed Science Anymore?
One-Astronomer8493 · reddit · 2026-10-07
A hobbyist researcher questions whether publishing peer-reviewed papers still matters as AI advances in math and science: if AI can identify research gaps, collect data, analyze, and write papers, are individual contributions just noise? The post argues academia was already noisy, AI amplifies it, and asks whether research's only purpose is now to feed AI.
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