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Scholarly publishing creaking under the weight of GenAI

I’m just finishing off the proofs for Generative AI for Academics. I think this prediction written last summer (god publishing books is slow) is holding up depressingly well:

I suspect these productions will thrive within the ecosystem of openly predatory pay-to-play journals, as well as those more ambiguous cases where publication is tacitly transactional between an academic who needs publications which can be counted and publishers willing to facilitate this for a fee. Scholarly publishing is not some pristine realm liable to be invaded by the malign influence of generative media. It is rather a system that was already straining under the weight of perverse incentives which is now liable to break if the worst potentials of GAI are realised

Now available for pre-order: https://uk.sagepub.com/en-gb/eur/generative-ai-for-academics/book288289

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