The number of evidently AI-generated papers that we are getting nowadays at the Journal of World Intellectual Property is staggering. About 70% of submissions are now flagged as AI, and it goes beyond copy-editing. Hallucinated references, bland articles that say nothing... we're having to work twice as hard to filter out all of the slop.
I reviewed one like this recently (not yours!) - can't believe it slipped through editors
Edward Lee
2w
Who is submitting them?
Olga Kudrina
2w
Problem will be worse if article filled with hallucinated references slips through and then itself used for reference.
Henry P.
2w
Interestingly, at CLSR I don't *think* this has become too much of a problem in respect of full papers (not those that pass the "desk reject" stage anyway). It's definitely notable in other types of submissions like book reviews and comments though.
Andres Guadamuz, when AI writes without insight, it’s not intelligence, it’s noise at scale. 😔 Quality and relevance still matters, maybe now more than ever.
The pressure to publish is enormous. I think this is a strong case for slow academia. Rather than publish a dozen bland desk work pieces that say nothing, it is much better to publish one systematic review or empirical piece and we should be encouraging law scholars to pursue less rather than more.
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I can't say this is shocking.... I just hope there's a way the AI-generated papers can be filtered and rejected without increasing the work/burden of editors.