Flood of Fake Science Forces Multiple Journal Closures

Let's not forget that there's a market for all the junk, and it's not the scientists. There's a close parallel with AI slop - it's not aimed at people but at advertisers, the goal is SEO. Same with fake papers and pay-to-publish journals. That stuff is aimed at administrators, because faculty nowadays need publications for promotion, and the admin has no idea about quality but can count.

> “Generative AI has just handed them a winning lottery ticket,” Eggleton of IOP Publishing said. “They can do it really cheap, at scale, and the detection methods are not where we need them to be. I can only see that challenge increasing.”