Why dont we require the reference PDFs to be uploaded at the same time as the paper?
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
#82I feel like this should be treated as, and have consequences similar to, plagiarism. Alas, it's probably just wishful thinking on my part.
So wrist slap?
I don't know if you know what you're talking about, but in my area, this could easily result in losing your job.
You probably don't want to throw someone in jail for one plagiarized paper, so between jail time and losing your job, I don't know what else you have.
Re: I flagged two research papers for fake authors and both were accepted as orals
#83“…because conferences have made it mandatory to review 4-5 papers if you submit to them.” Is that really a thing? So if I submit a legit paper it is being reviewed forcefully by a bunch of random people from god knows where?
Speaking for the *ACL conferences, they are not "random people" in the sense that they must have "(a) at least two papers in main ACL events or Findings, plus (b) at least one more paper in the ACL Anthology or a major ML/AI venue" [1]. So they are published authors.
As for it "being a thing": sadly yes. The number of papers has been steadily increasing over the years and the number of volunteer authors is simply not enough.
Re: I flagged two research papers for fake authors and both were accepted as orals
#84The next logical step in "publish or perish". Get rid of p-o-p and this problem will also largely disappear.
I know managers and administrators want a simple metric, but there is no simple metric for research.
Re: I flagged two research papers for fake authors and both were accepted as orals
#85Earlier quoted context omitted.
The "Chinese social credit" system is vastly overblown. I'm living here (China, Beijing and Jiangsu) now, and there are exactly two cases in the past eight months where the "social credit" system has had any impact at all: - To open "take first pay after" vending machines. These are vending machines which are basically big locked fridges; if your credit score is high enough, you can open the machines, take whatever d…
I remember in the west a few years ago we were seeing purported pictures of electronic billboards in China shaming low-social-credit-havers. Was that all a weird psyop?
> electronic billboards in China shaming low-social-credit-havers
It is people who did not pay their debts. Dr Jonathan Tam has a video on YT explaining it called:
Why the World Fell for China's Fake Dystopia
Re: I flagged two research papers for fake authors and both were accepted as orals
#86At 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…
Most things weren't really reviewed that well as it was. It was always a small fixed set of people that actually played their part in the process in good faith. Those people continue to do to today. As a percentage, they were always a small minority. Just that today, they have become even more of a minority.
Re: I flagged two research papers for fake authors and both were accepted as orals
#87At 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 are very rapidly automating humans out of the academic publication loop We are rendering it irrelevant. If this is the norm for academia, I’m sympathetic to the folks looking to cut its funding.
This is the norm for the industry. When there is a lot of money to be made, people will chase it by any means they can think of.
AI is a special case, as academia isn't usually that lucrative. In the rest of CS, many major conferences still have ~300 people, and interesting stuff often happens in specialized meetings with fewer than 100 participants.
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#88Earlier quoted context omitted.
"Consequences and reputations stemming from one's actions" isn't necessarily draconian social scoring. Without a structure for imposing consequences on wrongdoers, we're not a society, we're just monkeys flinging poo at each other.
The problem is that everyone imagines some sort of just and fair arbiter of these things, when the reality is all of the social scoring and consequences and reputations rarely actually stem from one’s actions, and far more often stem from how much money someone has put in someone’s pocket, who someone knows, the color of someone’s skin, or what’s between someone’s legs. Until we’re actually serious about treating peo…
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#89Earlier quoted context omitted.
Isn’t China doing something like this ? Wonder if it could degrade to something worse than the status quo where reputations are falsely tarnished by competitors purely as a weapon to get ahead…
The "Chinese social credit" system is vastly overblown. I'm living here (China, Beijing and Jiangsu) now, and there are exactly two cases in the past eight months where the "social credit" system has had any impact at all: - To open "take first pay after" vending machines. These are vending machines which are basically big locked fridges; if your credit score is high enough, you can open the machines, take whatever d…
But the USA has a social credit score that affects a lot more about your life, doesn't it? Like whether you're allowed to have a house or a car.
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#90Earlier quoted context omitted.
I have been rolling over the idea of “reasoning deserts” in my head, akin to food deserts. Places where economic calculations lead to only a facsimile of the real thing being provided, without the actual components necessary for human health, wellbeing and flourishing.
I'm from there. AMA
The USA, right?