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The academic publishing world is in crisis as pressure to produce papers fuels a booming black market of “paper mills” selling fake research—now turbocharged by generative AI that creates convincing, plagiarism-free fakes at scale. A BMJ study flagged nearly 10% of cancer papers as suspicious using AI, and prices for fake first-author credits range from $57 to $5,000. As AI makes fabrication easier and harder to detect, the system risks collapsing into an arms race of AI-generated garbage, where quantity trumps quality—and real researchers get sidelined.

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