As predicted, AI is making research worse. The Scopus CiteScore ranking of philosophy journals has 3 journals among the top 10 journals that are fake. They are AI generated, with fake authors, and cite each other extensively to achieve a top ranking.
The story here should be about predatory journals, not AI, imo. GenAI might have accelerated things, but predatory journals publishing fake articles with fake authors have been around long before the current iteration of genAI.