Comment by kiwih

I am an academic at a big Australian university. I can't disagree more with this article. Students are not just machines that convert ideas to papers (and nor should faculty), they are one of the true joys of academia in the first place.

Unfortunately, as other comments here have pointed out, the incentive structure for academia right now is misaligned, leading some faculty to focus just on publish or perish. This is a huge shame on so many counts.

My hope and also slight expectation from the AI era is that academic writing becomes so commodified that we see a total devaluing of papers as a metric, even in prestige venues. Perhaps this would help the community find better things to focus on.