[Cthulhu_]

TBH it was already possible before, but you'd need to either write templates or find competent low-cost ghostwriters. AI has made it easier and more accessible to do this kind of thing.

I wouldn't be surprised if the institutions or projects like CURL will create harsher measures to stop this flood of high-quality spam, like putting people on a list or requiring payment per submission.

I mean that last one isn't a bad thing, Apple did something like it years ago and I think asking for an upfront cost and having a strict (at the time) review program made it so that all apps were from serious developers and met minimum quality standards.

[aitchnyu]

Agree. Before 2010, I read a get-rich-quick affiliate marketing book telling you to use an automated tool to publish SEO spam about goldfish about to 200 blogs.

[lazide]

In Academia, this is what grad students have been sucked into doing for decades.