Bad papers, incorrect references, and superficial reviews existed long before #ChatGPT. AI did not invent poor scholarship – it simply made it scalable.

In our new paper, we argue that the debate should move beyond AI slop toward the broader concept of academic slop: low-quality scholarship produced without sufficient care, whether by humans or machines.

 https://doi.org/10.1080/10875301.2026.2685154

#AcademicSlop #AISlop #ResearchIntegrity #AcademicPublishing #GenerativeAI