AI Paper Mills Flood Journals

A medRxiv preprint identifies 400+ AI‑rewritten 'copycat' papers across 112 journals in 4.5 years and shows these evade plagiarism checks. Authors warn paper mills can mass‑produce low‑value studies by pairing public health datasets with large language models. — If AI enables industrial‑scale fakery in peer‑reviewed outlets, science governance, dataset access rules, and anti‑plagiarism tools must be rethought to protect research integrity.