'AI slop' papers published under prominent academics' names

An investigation by Times Higher Education found that little-known journals including the American International Journal of Research and Innovation, the American Journal of Advanced Multidisciplinary Research and Innovation and the American Journal For Multidisciplinary Research have published AI-generated papers attributed to academics such as Alan Said, Fei-Fei Li, Christopher Manning, Michael I. Jordan, Stuart Russell and Jure Leskovec without their knowledge or consent. Said discovered a paper under his name that he described as having "no content," and after he reported it the article stayed online while its attributed author changed repeatedly; several named academics and listed editorial board members confirmed they had not written the papers or agreed to serve. The journals share an editor-in-chief named Denish Brown, similar graphics and a US-area-code WhatsApp number, advertise publication fees, and show archives of papers supposedly published years before their 2026 domain registrations.