The Currency of the Journal Article Is Collapsing

"One journal reported having to double its editors—all unpaid volunteers—to handle the boom in submissions." Funny that this article skirts around the role that publishers play. Publishers could actually hire staff to handle the increase in submissions that their business models have encouraged.

Anyone having any crises of confidence in peer-reviewed articles? A decline of motivation to write them? A crisis of confidence in any other genres of writing as discovery looks to become ever more difficult under the textpocalypse? www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/1...

So, I can't read most of this article. But there is a really fascinating a statement right before the cutoff about how a giveaway of models is that they don't have access to the private IP vaults.

AI-Generated Articles Are Flooding Academic Journals - The Atlantic www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/1... - AI의 등장으로 겉보기만 그럴듯한 저품질 논문 투고가 폭증하면서 기존의 학술 출판 및 심사 시스템이 마비되고 있음 - 과중한 업무로 인해 저자뿐 아니라 심사위원까지 AI를 쓰기 시작하면서, 'AI 논문을 AI가 심사하고 AI로 수정하는' 기괴한 악순환이 발생 중 (🧵1/2)

If I were still full time, I think I would just go back to the old ways. Send my papers to the the few colleagues I admire. Read theirs and their students’. Ask same which new scholars are worth the time. Then self-publish thanking them all. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/1...

Journals not only are having to deal with the AI-drafted/AI-written manuscripts, but also increasingly with AI-massaged/AI-written peer reviews. The whole system—as imperfect as it was—is being threatened by slop and filler. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/1...

Excellent piece in @theatlantic.com by @annawexler.bsky.social on the problems of editing scholarly journals these days—mainly a flood of AI articles overwhelming peer review (& leading to some AI peer reviews). www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/1... We see it at the J. of Law & the Biosciences. Sigh.

Because AI is a hallucination prone plagiarism machine www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/1...

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The problem with #AI slop: humans are tasked with reviewing and deciding. Huge challenge in #science & #publishing – worse, arguably, in #coding -> #cybersecurity www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/1...

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AI-Generated Articles Are Flooding Academic Journals - The Atlantic www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/1... - AI의 등장으로 겉보기만 그럴듯한 저품질 논문 투고가 폭증하면서 기존의 학술 출판 및 심사 시스템이 마비되고 있음 - 과중한 업무로 인해 저자뿐 아니라 심사위원까지 AI를 쓰기 시작하면서, 'AI 논문을 AI가 심사하고 AI로 수정하는' 기괴한 악순환이 발생 중 (🧵1/2)

Quo vadis #academicpublishing. The system is broken! www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/1...

Seguramente parte de las publicaciones científicas se volverán más elitistas como consecuencia de la IA. Y no podemos culparles por ello www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/1...

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