News for hackers. Stuff that matters.
Re:I flagged two research papers for fake authors and both w... by lubujackson on Friday July 31, 2026 @11:56AM (#49124714)
The entire concept of publishing as a validation step for actual science has been declining for decades, fully co-opted by pay to play and virtue signaling for academic hiring.

AI is simply going to bury it as a useful system. What will grow from the ashes will be something much more dynamic, where verifiable data is the gold and the conclusions and associated details will persist only as the human-level translation.

Re:I flagged two research papers for fake authors and both w... by BigTTYGothGF on Friday July 31, 2026 @12:59PM (#49125750)
> virtue signaling

In this case presumably the virtue is "able to churn out papers".