For new fields like machine learning, there are free, open access journals that work perfectly well in filtering the highest quality research. It is helpful to

For new fields like machine learning, there are free, open access journals that work perfectly well in filtering the highest quality research. It is helpful to have top tier journals like Nature, but the value is generated by the editors and article submittors. If we shut down the top journals tomorrow new open access ones would quickly take their place, and the behaviour of their owners is parasitic.