AI being able to produce papers that aren't easily distinguishable from human-authored ones is potentially an extremely positive development. Even before AI, in every field I'm familiar with, the amount of published stuff exceeds the community's collective bandwidth to absorb and build upon ideas by a factor of 100x or more. Inevitably, the vast majority of what's published makes zero impact. Yet we pretend that publication itself has some value. It doesn't. Overproduction is the #1 problem in research. Dropping the cost of production to zero will force us to stop attaching value to publication, and look for ways to identify actual intellectual value.