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APS journals report "massive influx of amateur papers", more than doubling since ChatGPT

You can see the data for yourself on this slide, which is from this talk. The trend is flat through the early 2020s, then has a rapid rise in 2025 and 2026. The slides don't specify the category, but the rate in that category has gone from ~500/month to ~1200/month. This aligns perfectly with my experience reading papers in my subfield on arXiv.

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u/kzhou7 — 11 days ago