Albert Cardona<p>“AI slop and the destruction of knowledge”, by <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://scholar.social/@Iris" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>Iris</span></a></span><br><a href="https://irisvanrooijcogsci.com/2025/08/12/ai-slop-and-the-destruction-of-knowledge/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">irisvanrooijcogsci.com/2025/08</span><span class="invisible">/12/ai-slop-and-the-destruction-of-knowledge/</span></a></p><p>On Elsevier placing confidently wrong LLM-generated summaries of scientific concepts on the webpages of scientific peer-reviewed papers.</p><p>I mean it’s Elsevier, they only care about making money off academics. But you’d think this would undermine their business. Of course, Elsevier employees don’t read the papers they publish much less would understand most of them. How they determined that such summaries were helpful is anyone’s guess; my guess is that someone needed a promotion and offered this as a way to claim to their line managers or investors that Elsevier uses “AI”.</p><p><a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/academia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>academia</span></a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/Elsevier" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Elsevier</span></a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/RELX" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RELX</span></a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/ScientificPublishing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ScientificPublishing</span></a></p>