I said it before and I’ll say it again: scientific journals have hardly any relevance any more, except for academic careers.
AI is just speeding up this evolution. We urgently need to rethink scientific communication!
@academicchatter #academia #ugent #Science #academicchatter
https://garymarcus.substack.com/p/the-exponential-enshittification
Just charge a reading fee for each submitted article. This nonsense would stop overnight. And blacklist any author caught plagiarizing via ‘AI’ toolchains. If something comes from an AI the AI should be cited in the references, something like:
[AI][chatENG] … or … [AI:chatENG] …
@firefly AI is not the only problem. The fact those articles got published is merely a symptom of a far larger problem, mostly created by the combination of carreers depending on number of publications and for-profit scientific publishers. Even without AI many publications contribute nothing. I have seen people reinvent linear models as a “powerful new method”.
Yeah, “publish or perish” is not a sound scientific model. Nowadays many institutional researchers, writers and publishers have more in common with social media influencers than they do with bonafide scientists.