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by anon_tor_12345 1864 days ago
STEM people love to bring up the sokal affair. the same STEM people also don't realize that many journals and conferences in STEM have been tricked by things like this (more specifically precursors using HMMs and etc).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_scholarly_publishing_s...

edit: don't understand why i'm getting downvoted. is my comment not relevant to a post about the plausibility of abstracts generated by ML models?

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The reason for the downvotes is probably the generalisation regarding what "STEM people love to bring up" and also "don't realize". It feels like an unprovoked strawman attack against an ambiguously defined group of people.