Yesterday The Atlantic ran a news feature — Science Is Drowning in AI Slop — which provides a good summary of some of the challenges that academic publishing is facing. AJ Boston provided a view of the future, which the journalist used in the bottom line:

AIs would write most papers, and review most of them, too. This empty back-and-forth would be used to train newer AI models. Fraudulent images and phantom citations would embed themselves deeper and deeper in our systems of knowledge. They’d become a permanent epistemological pollution that could never be filtered out.

It’s a well written essay. Recommended.