Comment add a deposit (Score 4, Interesting) 23
Require a nominal fee, say 100 Euros, to submit a paper for review. If the paper is determined to be AI slop, keep the deposit. If the paper is accepted or rejectee, then refund the deposit. Sitting on the deposits for months makes it slightly harder to scale the submission of thousands of papers.
Use the proceeds to fund a reputation system where repeat offended can finally be discovered and turned away.