[Air-L] First Monday shutting down after 30 years

[Christian Fuchs]

Hello,
AI-generated papers are a real problem as it can be no coincidence that 
within a year many journals have seen a multiplication of the number of 
submissions...
It makes the whole academic publishing process more difficult than it is 
already. And papermill factories have already made a capitalist process 
out of AI-generated papers, even creating fake reviewer email addresses 
of people actually exisitng that are suggested as potential reviewers, etc.
I feaer there is no easy solution... Any ideas?
Best Chrisitan

Am 10.03.26 um 03:36 schrieb Rakesh Biswas via Air-L:
> AI co-authors would automatically beget AI co-editors and AI peer reviewers.
>
> Perhaps it's time for every human to experience being the last human
> "editor in chief" before they are edited out and written off from their
> academic flat lands!
>
> Either way in our regular data collection and raw blog publications (peer
> reviewed by our own large number of global team members), we have come to
> terms with the fact that the humungous human TLDR data we generate daily is
> largely fit for AI consumption and currently not fit for most humans who
> are not a part of our participatory action research in real time!
>
> best,
>
> rb
>
>
> On Tue, 10 Mar 2026, 07:43 Christopher Lueg via Air-L, <
> air-l at listserv.aoir.org> wrote:
>
>> I would also be interested in helping keep FM alive.
>>
>> The crazy increase in submissions and the associated scarcity of reviewers
>> is a challenge that all journals have been dealing with but now we face an
>> incoming avalanche of AI (co-)generated papers that exceed even the
>> capacity of editors that have substantial institutional support.
>>
>> "Perhaps FM - the Sequel" could become a testbed for a different submission
>> model!? Happy to share a few ideas.
>>
>> Best,
>> Christopher
>>
>> Dr. sc.nat. Christopher P. Lueg
>> Professor, School of Information Sciences
>> University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
>> https://ischool.illinois.edu/people/christopher-lueg
>> https://www.linkedin.com/in/clueg/
>> cplueg at illinois.edu
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Sun, Feb 8, 2026 at 5:36 AM Ruth Tsuria via Air-L <
>> air-l at listserv.aoir.org> wrote:
>>
>>> Would be happy to volunteer as well, and have experience acting as an
>>> Editor-in-Chief
>>>
>>> Associate Professor, Department of Communication, Media, and the Arts
>>> Program Director, MA Communication and MS Professional Communication and
>>> Digital Media Arts
>>> College of Human Development, Culture, Media
>>> Seton Hall University, NJ, USA
>>>
>>>
>>> Keeping Women in Their Digital Place (2024, Penn State University Press)
>>>
>>> Editor-in-Chief, Journal of Religion, Media and Digital Culture (Brill)
>>>
>>> For more publications: https://works.bepress.com/ruth-tsuria/
>>>
>>>
>>>
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