AI is simultaneously flooding journals with slop and cleaning up human slop
_akpiper · x · 2026-10-27
akpiper observes AI is doing two things to scholarship at once: generating AI slop flooding journals, editors and peer review, while also cleaning up tons of human slop that peer review previously missed. The quoted thread asks how long until most null results at top journals are due to such corrections.
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