“I thought this was striking, not least because many faculty I’ve chatted with this year used AI to generate their abstracts (at least), and—if they cut and pasted—would have violated it. And there’s been talk on substack.com/redirect/b… and X suggesting that the total number of articles has increased as authors’ costs of production has plumetted.⁵ In a recent poll, Orin Kerr found that over substack.com/redirect/9… disclosed that AI wrote at least part of their articles this last cycle.”