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As Alex notes in this thread, AI doesn't "democratize" science. Rather, it compels scientists to rely on anti-egalitarian means of directing their attention.

Alex Holcombe@alexh.bsky.social

Consequences of the flood of AI manuscripts: "An early-career researcher at an unbranded institution loses the one mechanism that ever let them be read on merit — anonymous review of the work itself, however badly it functioned in practice.

21/9/26, 9:53 pm64 reposts222 likes

Steven L. Johnson

@stevenljohnson.org

21 Sept

The top journals in my field of Information Systems are getting hit hard by increased submissions due to how AI can speed up the research process (to put it as charitably as possible). There's talk of implementing submission fees to help cope, which is truly the opposite of democratizing science

theseouldan.bsky.social

@theseouldan.bsky.social

22 Sept

The arrival of slop means everyone is less likely to punt on an unknown author/scientist/artist/developer

bridgetds.bsky.social

@bridgetds.bsky.social

21 Sept

I am not in any of the fields mentioned I the thread (the writing of which to me itself has hallmarks of AI) but I am already getting AI submissions all the time at the journals I'm associated with. Huge waste of my time and I feel terrible if any slip through to reviewers