I flagged two research papers for fake authors and both were accepted as orals
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Re: I flagged two research papers for fake authors and both were accepted as orals
#2At this point, in the field of AI research:
- papers are written by AI (as pointed out in this article, and as obvious to anyone who spends a while actually reading recent AI research)
- papers are reviewed by AI (NeurIPS is doing an AI assisted review experiment - https://neurips.cc/Conferences/2026/ai-reviewing-experiment - and I feel the trend is moving towards AI reviewers whether we like it or not)
- papers are read, summarized and digested by AI, because there are just so many papers at leading AI conferences that nobody has time to eyeball them all
We are very rapidly automating humans out of the academic publication loop here.
Re: I flagged two research papers for fake authors and both were accepted as orals
#3At this point, in the field of AI research: - papers are written by AI (as pointed out in this article, and as obvious to anyone who spends a while actually reading recent AI research) - papers are reviewed by AI (NeurIPS is doing an AI assisted review experiment - https://neurips.cc/Conferences/2026/ai-reviewing-experiment - and I feel the trend is moving towards AI reviewers whether we like it or not) - papers are…
We just need journals run by an AI that charges other AI to read them, and then the AI run colleges can promote the AI with the most AI journal entries and citations.
Re: I flagged two research papers for fake authors and both were accepted as orals
#4At this point, in the field of AI research: - papers are written by AI (as pointed out in this article, and as obvious to anyone who spends a while actually reading recent AI research) - papers are reviewed by AI (NeurIPS is doing an AI assisted review experiment - https://neurips.cc/Conferences/2026/ai-reviewing-experiment - and I feel the trend is moving towards AI reviewers whether we like it or not) - papers are…
We just need journals run by an AI that charges other AI to read them, and then the AI run colleges can promote the AI with the most AI journal entries and citations.
Benchmaxxing is already here. No need to pine for the future!
Re: I flagged two research papers for fake authors and both were accepted as orals
#5This is a side effect of academia never taking open accessibility to papers and journals seriously.
If all these papers were not gatekept by journals, it would be trivially easy to validate at least the existence of cited papers and quotes.
Re: I flagged two research papers for fake authors and both were accepted as orals
#6I feel like this should be treated as, and have consequences similar to, plagiarism.
Alas, it's probably just wishful thinking on my part.
Re: I flagged two research papers for fake authors and both were accepted as orals
#7https://arxiv.org/stats/monthly_submissions
They should consider swapping this for a log plot.
I can imagine in 2027 academia looking like Moltbook.
Re: I flagged two research papers for fake authors and both were accepted as orals
#8This is a side effect of academia never taking open accessibility to papers and journals seriously. If all these papers were not gatekept by journals, it would be trivially easy to validate at least the existence of cited papers and quotes.
It is trivially easy to validate the existence of a cited paper.
Re: I flagged two research papers for fake authors and both were accepted as orals
#9At this point, in the field of AI research: - papers are written by AI (as pointed out in this article, and as obvious to anyone who spends a while actually reading recent AI research) - papers are reviewed by AI (NeurIPS is doing an AI assisted review experiment - https://neurips.cc/Conferences/2026/ai-reviewing-experiment - and I feel the trend is moving towards AI reviewers whether we like it or not) - papers are…
Unless someone has discovered some magic sauce for getting AI to write well, I have immense sympathy for anyone trying to wade through these papers.
I may generate slop from time to time, but I do my best to keep it to myself.
Re: I flagged two research papers for fake authors and both were accepted as orals
#10> Both papers were accepted for oral presentations with the condition that they simply fix the hallucinated references.
I do wonder what truthfully could be on ai verification, if even one paper with such an error is accepted it sets the precedent you hopefully get lucky to not get caught (then again verifying for basic tells isn't the same verifying is this genuinely a worthwhile publication, but that's a separate matter)