How AI slop is causing a crisis in computer science

Gibney, Elizabeth

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Preprint repositories and conference organizers are having to counter a tide of ‘AI slop’ submissions.

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  1. Elizabeth Gibney

Fifty-four seconds. That’s how long it took Raphael Wimmer to write up an experiment that he did not actually perform, using a new artificial-intelligence tool called Prism, released by OpenAI last month. “Writing a paper has never been easier. Clogging the scientific publishing pipeline has never been easier,” wrote Wimmer, a researcher in human–computer action at the University of Regensburg in Germany, on Bluesky.

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doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-025-03967-9

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