Is sycophantic AI inflating research publications? Two mechanisms worth questioning
KLdivergence · x · 2026-10-30
KLdivergence poses an interesting question about rising research publication counts: how much comes from sycophantic AI convincing people that ideas they wouldn't previously have pursued are worthy of research, versus AI simply speeding up how fast someone can throw a paper together — two very different mechanisms distorting academia.
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