Research integrity is locked into an arms race with agentic AI slop

Science prides itself on being self-correcting. While scientific fakery has always been a problem, cases of fraud have been isolated, and a combination of scepticism and scrutiny has up to now generally worked to highlight published papers that are unreliable. The 30 minute paper However, the world of research and publishing is changing. The introduction of agentic artificial intelligence (AI)…