# AI-generated Research Papers Are Overwhelming Peer Review  ## Metadata - Author: [[Joshua Dzieza]] - Full Title: AI-generated Research Papers Are Overwhelming Peer Review - Category: #articles - Summary: insert summary - My notes: - Summary: Journal editors and peer reviewers are being flooded with AI-generated papers that are almost impossible to detect. - URL: https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/930522/ai-research-papers-slop-peer-review-problem ## LLM Chats ## NotebookLM ## LLM Audio ## Highlights > But now AI has improved to the point where it can produce convincing papers almost wholesale, allowing desperate academics in need of a publication to mill papers of their own. The result is a deluge of scientific slop that threatens to swamp publishing, peer review, grant making, and the research system as it exists today. ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01krragxwdtspmfqbhmmykvex5)) > “If you’ve got enough computing power, you go through and you measure every single pairwise association, and eventually you find some that haven’t been written on before and you just publish: There is a correlation between this and that,” Spick said. These correlations are often misleading simplifications of phenomena with multiple causes or random statistical flukes. “One was that how many years you spend in education will cause postoperative hernia complications. That is just a random correlation. What am I supposed to do with that? Leave school early so that I won’t get a postoperative hernia complication later?” ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01krrajv58zbhns6w3a584tn4p)) > This raises some philosophical questions, Spick said, like: Does it matter who or what writes the paper if the information is accurate? And should science be in the business of publishing every possible fact? ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01krr9emcsem2vccb293329cyy))