It’s called Prism, and it has drawn immediate skepticism from researchers who fear the tool will accelerate the already overwhelming flood of low-quality papers into scientific journals. The launch coincides with growing alarm among publishers about what many are calling “AI slop” in academic publishing. To be clear, Prism is a writing and formatting tool, not a system for conducting research itself, though OpenAI’s broader pitch blurs that line. OpenAI built Prism on technology from Crixet, a cloud-based LaTeX platform the company acquired in late 2025. The barrier to producing science-flavored text is dropping, but the capacity to evaluate that research has not kept pace.