AI Papers Flood Academic Journals Faster Than Reviewers Can Check Them

Generative AI now produces dozens to hundreds of research papers daily, overwhelming peer review systems designed for human submissions. AI-generated papers blend original text convincingly, bypassing plagiarism detection. Journal editors lack tools and capacity to verify authenticity at scale, risking journal contamination. The crisis echoes predatory journal problems from the 2000s, but operates at vastly larger volume.