Jeffrey Beall, the Denver-based former librarian, first coined the term “predatory publishing” in 2011, to identify such ‘pay to publish’ journals, who publish anything without peer review [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeffrey_Beall.]
Publishing in predatory journals is not much worth as the review process is not rigorous. They are more interested in publication fee rather than contents of the paper.
Predatory publishing is a scourge threatening the sanctity of scientific dissemination. Recent relevant reads are the articles by Demir (2018), Macháček and Srholec (2021). Both papers have cautioned against predators and rendered tips.
Demir, S. B. (2018). Predatory journals: Who publishes in them and why? Journal of Informetrics, 12(4), 1296–1311. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.joi.2018.10.008
Macháček, V., & Srholec, M. (2021). Predatory publishing in Scopus: Evidence on cross-country differences. Scientometrics, 126(3), 1897–1921. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11192-020-03852-4
Well there are always two sides of a coin. If there is a workforce, we just need to streamline their efforts and allow them to regulate to work till a certain threshold. I am not an advocate for predatory journal, but what I am trying to say is that we can use this workforce and after assessment and regularization from concerned scientific authorities, let them work in a specific category for specific type of literature with limited allowance of finances. Eventually those who want to publish in reputable journals can acces them and those who knew their work quality will publish in these lower categorized journals.