Run of the mill ML jobs these days ask for "papers in NeurIPS ICLR or other Tier-1 conferences".
We're well past Goodhart's law when it comes to publications.
It was already insane in CS - now it's reached asylum levels.
Academia has been ripe for disruption for a while now.
The "Rooter" paper came out 20 years ago:
https://www.csail.mit.edu/news/how-fake-paper-generator-tric...
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Run of the mill ML jobs these days ask for "papers in NeurIPS ICLR or other Tier-1 conferences".
We're well past Goodhart's law when it comes to publications.
It was already insane in CS - now it's reached asylum levels.