My hope is that the flood of AI articles pushes the academic publication system to its highly-anticipated breaking point.

The most absurd part is that everyone in academia knows that publish or perish is tremendously damaging to real research. Yet we’re all hostage of this system that we created in the name of “merit” and “efficiency”.

We need a different system to identify and reward talented hard-working people. Back in the day it all relied on actual interpersonal interaction and subjective judgment, but there were also much fewer researchers worldwide.

> My hope is that the flood of AI articles pushes the academic publication system to its highly-anticipated breaking point.

This will just make research inaccessible to most researchers. There is no incentive to limit publishing, at all, other than at the highest echelons. Publish or perish will just become worse. Look at what is happening to programming and extrapolate that to research work.

And all for what? Just to keep up this facade of society until most of society can be excised, whether artificially or naturally though lack of reproduction.

Oh it's getting there. I've turned down several referee requests this year because the paper looks like AI slop. A lot of it seems to come from China.