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  • If AI submissions, then why not go a step further and have AI reviewers?

    Perhaps this will help bring more scrutiny to the metric of publishing quantity not being as valuable as it has been treated.

    by coderintherye
  • The SSRN ID of the page linked to by the article [0] is not the same as the SSRN ID [1] linked from a chicagobooth.edu scholar by that name [2]

    0. https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=170...

    1. https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=228...

    2. https://www.chicagobooth.edu/faculty/directory/p/nicholas-po...

    by adolph
  • Writing is a technology that served us well for over 5000 years, but now times are a changing. Written media will cease to provide any value in the next decade i think. In person chats/Public speaking will be revered again.

    Edit - people are assuming that i want this to happen. no, i don't. i am reading more than i ever did before, maybe out of rebellion. i am just stating what I THINK is to come. it might not go this way at all.

    by prometheus1992
  • Why would someone ruin their academic credentials and reputation (at a reputable university) like this? Maybe there was nothing to begin with? Otherwise I can't understand this.
    by tobias2014
  • Someone in the comments mentioned this:

    > As someone who has known Nick in the past, I’m a bit surprised by this multitude of articles and books. However, I think you’ve missed a fifth possibility that would suggest gentle handling: a mental health issue. The papers and books on philosophy, religion, and issues well beyond anything econometric plus the videos on the Riemann Hypothesis suggest someone who is no longer bound by the intellectual boundaries or social mores of proper research.

    I don't know whether the commenter is legit, and whether this actually happened, but I wonder if AI-psychosis (or at least, AI-amplified psychosis) might not become a real thing. People already on the edge having "productive" conversations with LLM chatbots and going down rabbit holes. It can't be a good thing, especially since LLMs are sycophants that indulge every crazy idea you have.

    I'm not saying this didn't happen before, I just wonder whether LLMs enable a whole new scale of crazy.

    by the_af
  • Vadim Sokolov, the co-author of the paper mentioned in the post defends this insane practice and says they reviewed at least one of the 258 generated papers with their own eyes, they are thus not fake papers.

    Source: https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2026/08/27/258/#comme...

    by hangrybear666
  • IIUC there are not 258 academic papers published in serious peer review journals [1], only 258 "preprints" in a free preprint server. It's like posting in WordPress but using a PDF instead of html [2]. I guess they start with "abstract" and end with "References" so they looks like papers.

    For some weird reason in the last few years people forgot the differences and now any PDF is an "academic paper" [3]. (I'd be more annoyed, if the internal system of the university also forgot the difference. I'm afraid to ask.)

    [1] Whatever "serious" means, that's a huge can of worms.

    [2] They get an doi and a version number in case of a change.

    [3] A few years ago they were call "whitepapers".

    by gus_massa
  • > “An Interdisciplinary Synthesis Across Economics, Psychology, Biology, Philosophy, Game Theory, and Spiritual Tradition.”

    If one were inclined, they could shorten the title to "AI Synthesis Across Economics, Psychology, Biology, Philosophy, Game Theory, and Spiritual Tradition." Maybe that's an Easter egg.

    AI submissions, soon AI reviewers, and shortly after only AI readers.

    The guy's name is "nosloP" spelled backwards. Maybe spelled normally it's supposed to signify the opposite.

    by buran77

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