So far, my Monday morning has consisted of writing to the editors of a journal that they published a paper containing a drove of AI slop references, helping my much-appreciated instance admin to reject a signup request from a vibe scientist, and dealing with a breach of confidentiality at a major physics journal that smells a lot like the product of some AI assistant.
This must be these enormous AI -driven gains in productivity everyone is talking about.
Do you have the DOIs of the articles? These are supposed to be stable references. If there's a DOI, you can assume that the article still exists and if there isn't one, you're probably not dealing with a publisher blocking your requests.