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Predatory journals publishing AI slop in the name of famous academics to confer legitimacy

I find it almost impossible to believe this short article in International Journal of Sociology Civics research was produced by Anthony Giddens and Robert Putnam. Everything about it, from venue through to methodology and style, scream bullshit:

They also have a publication of ‘new’ papers by Zygmunt Bauman, Pierre Bourdieu and Michael Burawoy (all deceased) in 2025. What’s going on here? Is a predatory journal faking authorship, through AI generated papers, in order to confer legitimacy? What’s spectacularly lazy about it is that the papers look nothing like something these authors would write, even if they were alive and interested in publishing in this journal.

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