The Machine-Assisted Literature: How AI Took Over Academic Publishing, and Who Is Getting Paid for It
In the spring of 2025, Jacqueline Ewart, a professor of communication at Griffith University in Australia, received a Google Scholar alert for a paper she recognized. She had reviewed it months earlier for the Journal of Radio & Audio Media and recommended rejection: the writing sounded machine-generated, and several references, including a 2017 article on…