Update. #SocArXiv (@socarxiv) is dealing with a similar problem by requiring submitters to have #ORCIDs and tightening its focus on the social sciences.
https://socopen.org/2025/11/19/socarxiv-submission-rule-changes/
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Update. Here's another piece arguing that the best solution to this problem is to curb #OpenAccess itself.
https://journals.plos.org/plosmedicine/article?id=10.1371/journal.pmed.1004851
"The very measures designed to fight fraud (open access) simultaneously power new forms of problematic activities (GenAI-assisted fast churn science). Robust evidence is emerging that open access datasets, especially in health and medicine, are being exploited in this way by paper mills and other bad actors…We suggest that unrestricted open access will continue to compromise trust in research using exploited assets…[Our recommended] safeguards would not be incompatible with #OpenScience, but would protect open practices and maintain the ethical and scientific benefits; without such changes to reassert the balance between Open Science and research integrity, our expectation is that the credibility of research based on open access data sources will continue to decline."
@petersuber
Rolling back Open Data appears a stupid move. Apparently journals' review process has been unable to spot sokalized papers™ all along. Just now, when it's better automatable, it can't be conveniently ignored anymore. I wonder whether and where the discussion to find real solutions is happening.