Low-quality and AI-generated papers ‘could overwhelm publishing’

I have edited a well-known community led, zero budget, no APC social science journal for 20 years. What has happened is that people less confident about submitting a paper, or not able to finish it, are now using tools like chat gpt , and sending that sort of work to us. Papers average about 4,000 words, when our previous when our long-term averages over 8,000 words, they have from four to 11 articles in their lit review, often addressed sequentially, and no empirical material in a discipline that values individual fieldwork. They often don't address our subfield at all, or just site one reference from it. I also get bullet point recommendations, as in a report format. The source of these papers is overwhelmingly from countries where publishing in a Q1 or q2 journal is valued but given resource all language was often difficult to achieve. I feel with two to eight submissions a day, I am beginning to lose the will to live! Any suggestions?

Yes desk reject them only go for high quality.

One of my old professor mentors many a year ago said to me 'never believe anything you read in the literature ' . I may have scoffed then, but not now with the open access model open to predation and compounded now by AI. Open access one day will be seen as the start of the end of quality scientific publishing (after publishers have made their billions of course).