>>16713402i'd expect the ai generated papers would either be used by midwits to get a degree at all, and mostly not by those interested in staying in academia afterwards.
you're right that it would fuck your h-index if you shat out lots of papers nobody references, but someone getting a degree so they can get a job as an engineer or whatever wouldn't care about that, or only as much as they have to.
but who knows, maybe someone will figure out how to generate a paper that deceives peer review and baits a lot of citations.
then everyone would be kinda fucked.
no indian can put as much shit on paper as a well-configured ai, and not just because they prefer bottles of water.