Post #587967

2026-03-07 03:47 UTC

Because of the increase in submissions due to AI, the peer review system will collapse. The AI flood is happening at different rates for different fields and subtitles, so you might be spared so far. Other than falling back on old boys network, prestigious institutional marker type stuff, plus AI doing peer review, I dont know what will replace the current system. Even getting your preprint on a preprint server will be time-consuming and unreliable, depending on who you are, I think.

Replies (4)

@lispi314@udongein.xyz 2026-03-07 03:57

@alexh Was there no measurement of the quality of the contributions prior? No reputation keeping of any sort?

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@draygon@furry.engineer 2026-03-07 04:22

@alexh what if the future of work for humanity is just fact-checking AI?

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@neuralreckoning@neuromatch.social 2026-03-07 06:10

@alexh some form of trust network seems inevitable.

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@RenkeSiems@openbiblio.social 2026-03-07 08:40

@alexh Part of the misery is that we all know that research and infrastructure can't be separated anymore in data-intensive research but we still keep research and publishing distinct. Slop, merchants of doubt and snake oil sellers are all creeping into the system through this gap. The future will be gap-less solutions (like JupytherBooks for example) or oldschool publishing like in humanities where you never had this gap: all research is in the writing, proofreading, publishishing, reading.

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