2026-01-26
Horrifying - but less of a problem for history. I still can't see a LLM-generated manuscript getting past peer-review, except in irrelevant/low-quality journals no one actually reads.
The Atlantic
Analysis: scientists who appeared to use LLMs posted 33% more papers on arXiv than those who didn't, as concerns grow over AI slop in scientific publishing
2026-01-25
Horrifying - but less of a problem for history. I still can't see a LLM-generated manuscript getting past peer-review, except in irrelevant/low-quality journals no one actually reads.
The Atlantic
Analysis: scientists who appeared to use LLMs posted 33% more papers on arXiv than those who didn't, as concerns grow over AI slop in scientific publishing
Peer review has met its match. — On a frigid Norwegian afternoon earlier this month, Dan Quintana, a psychology professor …
2025-11-10
It's interesting that LLM slop has been proliferating in legal circles and science academic publishing - but not so far in the humanities. I assume it's because fewer people use it, but also because the close-reading ethos of the humanities makes it unthinkable. — www.nytimes.com/2025/11/07/b...
New York Times
A group of lawyers has documented 533 cases of AI misuse in legal filings, including fabricated case law citations; judges and bar associations permit AI use
More lawyers are using artificial intelligence to write legal briefs. Some colleagues are publicizing the A.I.-generated errors.
2025-08-17
“Following hundreds of billions of dollars of investment in generative AI and the computing infrastructure that powers it, the question suddenly sweeping through Silicon Valley is: what if this is as good as it gets?”
Financial Times
GPT-5's underwhelming performance on benchmarks suggests that the current approach of scaling LLMs is starting to reach the limits of available resources
OpenAI's underwhelming new GPT-5 model suggests progress is slowing — and competition in the space is changing