Basically already happening in many Chinese departments and conferences, just without the AI yet, but of equivalent quality.
(I'm ethnic Chinese and this is not meant to be a racially charged comment)
(I'm ethnic Chinese and this is not meant to be a racially charged comment)
Because you are judged on citations, publication count in prestigious journals, and research dollars spent... you have people citing themselves and their friends in citation rings, gaming the referee process to pick reviewers, and doing unethical things for money.
My first experience in this is when I was asked (as a postdoc) to give a keynote for a no-name conference in Vancouver. They were paying so why not? I later realized that my pedigree was being used to lend credence to a conference that was totally cargo cult academia. There were conference sessions, and people presenting, and bunches of people in several rooms, but nothing was actually being said and nothing was being done. They then offered me $3,000 cash in an envelope which I declined to take most of because of ethical reasons (I only wanted to cover my expenses). A very unique, maybe even out-of-body experience to stay the least.
If you want to see a crazy instantiation of cargo cult academia, google "extreme learning machines", which is basically a whole field built off of 2-layer feedforward neural networks with 1 randomly initialized layer. The other keynote at this conference was the guy who "started" this field.
When careers are on the line and one is expected to mischaracterize one's work or its impact, people will tend to do so
If this problem exists independently of cultural or institutional factors maybe there are potential solutions with an equally broad range of application
that's not a carte blanche to stereotype a whole nation and it makes as much sense as a mailander chinese person badmouthing singapore taiwan or the abcs and using that excuse