It's another way that AI grifting is a bleak mirror of earlier "intelligent design" grifting. Academic publishing is a complete disaster, and at the same time, is held up by institutions like Wikipedia as a marker of scientific legitimacy — and to some degree, rightly so. After all, there's not a better system already out there that people outside of a field can use to evaluate knowledge within a field.
So we're left with a situation where someone can just piss in the knowledge pool.