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In case you have missed it, and are interested.</div>
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<a href="https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/opinionista/2026-05-28-ai-is-eating-the-academic-publishing-industry-alive-but-some-good-might-come-of-it/" id="OWAf190f2d9-b117-8958-d12f-c7b43f56a492" class="x_x_OWAAutoLink" data-auth="NotApplicable">https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/opinionista/2026-05-28-ai-is-eating-the-academic-publishing-industry-alive-but-some-good-might-come-of-it/</a></div>
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By <a href="https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/author/sioux-mckenna/?dm_source=article-author-bar&dm_medium=link&dm_campaign=author_profile" id="OWA1e554758-d701-dd55-e950-eb87f22010e2" class="x_x_hover:underline x_x_OWAAutoLink" title="Sioux McKenna" data-auth="NotApplicable" style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
Sioux McKenna</a></div>
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McKenna argues that AI is “eating” academic publishing because the system had already turned knowledge into a commodity and scholarship into a numbers game - but the crisis may create an opportunity to rebuild publishing around openness, equity, quality and
genuine intellectual exchange.</div>
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