The Cite and Conquer Problem: How AI Research is Hijacking Academia The recent surge in citations for Peter Degen's 2017 paper has sent shockwaves through the scientific community, but this phenomenon is not an isolated anomaly.
It is a symptom of a larger issue: the increasing reliance on AI generated research, which is transforming the way we produce and consume knowledge.
In recent years, there has been a significant increase in the number of AI powered tools that can generate research papers at an unprecedented scale.