As an academic, albeit in a low-stakes field (literature), this is bloody terrifying. It's clearly the result of students using ChatGPT to write their papers and the outdated "publish or perish" model of tenure/promotion metrics incentivizing quantity over quality. Peer reviewing should always be double-blind to prevent nepotism, but also reviewers should be paid -- it's hard work and essential work, but with how precarious many academics are right now, it is not possible to do extra/volunteer for unpaid labour. Journals roll in cash but expect free labour from all sides of academia -- the writers don't get paid (or have to pay to publish) and the reviewers don't get paid, but readers pay for access, either individually or through library subscriptions/universities. It's bonkers.