FT：AI生成论文涌入期刊，推动220亿美元出版业走向并购
FT 报道称，机器生成的论文正大量涌入学术期刊，筛选成本把一个价值 $22B 的出版业推向并购。Elsevier 自 2022 年以来将审稿人池扩大超过三分之一至 1.9M；质量控制成本上升加上对 chatbot 使付费研究贬值的担忧，令 Springer Nature 上市两年后股价仍低于 €22.50 的发行价。
FT: Machine-written papers are flooding academic journals, and the cost of screening them is pushing a $22B publishing industry toward mergers.
Filtering the flood requires people. thats why Elsevier has grown its reviewer pool by more than a third since 2022 to 1.9M.
Those rising quality-control costs, plus fears that chatbots will make paid research less valuable, have kept Springer Nature below its €22.50 listing price 2 years after its IPO.
Consolidation is the industry’s answer, starting with Wiley’s £337M purchase of Emerald in June and Informa’s October decision to separate Taylor & Francis, a unit nearing $1B in annual revenue.
The same AI that floods journals also pays for them, as Wiley earned about $40M in 2025 from licensing content for model training.
来源：rohanpaul_ai · x.com