> 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.