Artificial intelligence was supposed to accelerate discovery, but a growing number of researchers say it is flooding science with junk. Instead of careful experiments and hard-won insights, they ...

OpenAI announced a new AI agent called Deep Research on Sunday. The AI agent surfs the web, finds sources, and writes a research paper complete with tables and bullet points based on a prompt. The ...

There’s sloppy science, and there’s AI slop science. In an ironic twist of fate, beleaguered AI researchers are warning that the field is being choked by a deluge of shoddy academic papers written ...