Advice for PhD students in this Al slop paper era – I feel academia needs serious revisions! [D]

Looking at 30k submissions at a single conference venue and also recent AI written paper with AI written reviews – I’m seriously worried about where this is heading.

i decided to pursue a PhD because I really liked working on papers for months, get very interesting clinical findings and then present it really well. But I feel that it is dead now. All recent papers I read in my field are just slops and there is no real work coming out worth reading. Even if there is, it gets lost in the pile.

What advice do you want to give to PhD students like me on how to maximize their PhD as just getting papers at venues is a lost dream. My aim is to get into a big tech, working on real problems.