Hello, AI-generated papers are a real problem as it can be no coincidence that within a year many journals have seen a multiplication of the number of submissions... It makes the whole academic publishing process more difficult than it is already. And papermill factories have already made a capitalist process out of AI-generated papers, even creating fake reviewer email addresses of people actually exisitng that are suggested as potential reviewers, etc. I feaer there is no easy solution... Any ideas? Best Chrisitan Am 10.03.26 um 03:36 schrieb Rakesh Biswas via Air-L:
AI co-authors would automatically beget AI co-editors and AI peer reviewers.
Perhaps it's time for every human to experience being the last human "editor in chief" before they are edited out and written off from their academic flat lands!
Either way in our regular data collection and raw blog publications (peer reviewed by our own large number of global team members), we have come to terms with the fact that the humungous human TLDR data we generate daily is largely fit for AI consumption and currently not fit for most humans who are not a part of our participatory action research in real time!
best,
rb
On Tue, 10 Mar 2026, 07:43 Christopher Lueg via Air-L, < air-l@listserv.aoir.org> wrote:
I would also be interested in helping keep FM alive.
The crazy increase in submissions and the associated scarcity of reviewers is a challenge that all journals have been dealing with but now we face an incoming avalanche of AI (co-)generated papers that exceed even the capacity of editors that have substantial institutional support.
"Perhaps FM - the Sequel" could become a testbed for a different submission model!? Happy to share a few ideas.
Best, Christopher
Dr. sc.nat. Christopher P. Lueg Professor, School of Information Sciences University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign https://ischool.illinois.edu/people/christopher-lueg https://www.linkedin.com/in/clueg/ cplueg@illinois.edu
On Sun, Feb 8, 2026 at 5:36 AM Ruth Tsuria via Air-L < air-l@listserv.aoir.org> wrote:
Would be happy to volunteer as well, and have experience acting as an Editor-in-Chief
Associate Professor, Department of Communication, Media, and the Arts Program Director, MA Communication and MS Professional Communication and Digital Media Arts College of Human Development, Culture, Media Seton Hall University, NJ, USA
Keeping Women in Their Digital Place (2024, Penn State University Press)
Editor-in-Chief, Journal of Religion, Media and Digital Culture (Brill)
For more publications: https://works.bepress.com/ruth-tsuria/
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