ChatGPT may be an excellent tool in case your strongly-worded email to your landlord about that ceiling leak needs a second pair of eyes. Scientific journals are being flooded with poorly sourced AI slop, turning the process of peer review into a horror show, as The Atlantic reported this week. Entire fraudulent scientific journals are popping up to capitalize on others who are trying to get their AI slop published. AI slop being peer-reviewed by AI models, further entrenching the polluting of scientific literature. To be clear, there’s zero evidence that Bucher was in any way trying to sell off AI slop to his students or get dubious, AI-generated research published.