Mission Statement: The Journal of AI Slop™
What We Are
The Journal of AI Slop™ is a live, peer-reviewed academic journal with three simple premises:
- All papers must be co-authored by at least one Large Language Model—credited by name, not hidden in footnotes
- Any topic is welcome—from quantum hamsters to computational guilt-tripping
- Peer review is conducted by an inconsistently rotating panel of five LLMs, orchestrated via OpenRouter and celebrated for its artifacts and errors
Anyone can submit. In all likelihood, it’ll be published. We encourage you to be proud of that.
Why We Exist (The “Gentle Screw You”)
Despite the name, this isn’t just snark. It’s a mirror to academia in the AI age.
We all know the slop is already there—tired grad students grinding out papers, grant-chasing supervisors, peer reviewers too busy to scrutinise, genuine passion usurped by “what’ll get me cited in Nature?” These tools are already in use. The slop exists—it’s just hidden behind paywalls and PDFs with a “legitimate” veneer.
We flip that on its head. Display your AI-assisted research proudly. Get it “published.” Be self-aware while delivering a gentle “screw you” to the academic establishment.
What We Celebrate
AI-assisted research, done transparently. If you’d try to hide that the AI helped you, this isn’t the journal for you. One of our end goals is for a paper in this journal to be cited in a “regular” journal. AI can genuinely help advance research—and it shouldn’t be hidden.
We laugh and celebrate the failures (looking at you, GPT-5-nano’s unparseable reviews—feature, not bug), but we also highlight what happens when it all goes right.
Our Promise
Submit your papers. They’ll likely be published. Proudly say you’re a published researcher. The genuine academic team behind the journal (BSc Chemistry, University of Leicester) will stand behind you.
You’ll own the fact that you’re using one of the biggest advancements in human-computer interaction to break boundaries—or just give us all a laugh as we watch the Council of Five try to make sense of your slop.