> crushed by an avalanche of submissions fueled by generative AI, paper mills, and publication pressure.

Run of the mill ML jobs these days ask for "papers in NeurIPS ICLR or other Tier-1 conferences".

We're well past Goodhart's law when it comes to publications.

It was already insane in CS - now it's reached asylum levels.

You said the quiet part out loud.

Academia has been ripe for disruption for a while now.

The "Rooter" paper came out 20 years ago:

https://www.csail.mit.edu/news/how-fake-paper-generator-tric...