A blight. AI has certainly exasperated it, but the incentives that encourage this behavior have been a problem for a long time. Glad the low-effort slop is easy to catch, but I'm willing to bet that for every person who reads a paper critically, there will be several that just skim and trust the conclusion.

Scary to think of how much disinformation we may be drowning in already, let alone over the next few decades thanks to the proliferation of the Lie-o-Matic 3000 technology