[wincy]

It’s interesting that the fake paper generators of today are lower quality than the ones from over an decade ago. SciGen makes more believable papers and it came out in 2005 [0]

This generator reeks of ChatGPT, and says “whimsical” and “fictional” every other word if you ask it to generate a paper that is obviously untrue. All this “safety” is so boring.

[0] https://pdos.csail.mit.edu/archive/scigen/

Looks like maybe it doesn’t work anymore which is a little sad.

[omoikane]

SCIgen papers are the results of lots of manual rules:

https://github.com/strib/scigen/blob/master/scirules.in

It's an example of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expert_system

I am not sure what drives fakepaper.app but the output didn't seem to have as much variety.

[noah32]

i can open source it if people want but its llms under the hood

[raincole]

You're not wrong, but I don't know if we should have been celebrating it if the quality of fake paper generators had been improved a lot since 2005.

[noah32]

i mean its certainly designed to be funny not realistic or believable. and yes it uses openai apis for content generation.

[michael9423]

It's not at all funny. It's dumb, and from the headline alone - "A dairy delight" - I already knew it was the lame and predictable ChatGPT language model with all it's repetitiveness, puns and consciously designed idiocy.

"dairy-inspired exploration" - word salad garbage

"we will humorously consider" - good to be reminded again, I was already falling for it

"the implications of a lactose-laden lunar surface" with acutely annoying aliterations.

[euvin]

Sure, I'm a bit tired of repetitive ChatGPT output too. But I'm really surprised at how vitriolic this reply is.

It's a student's side project, with the tagline "Your Source for Academic Satire", with a basic one-liner prompt textbox. No one's expecting this to disrupt the academic world or whatever. The author (a college student) doesn't advertise this to be "the world's most advanced academic scientific rigorous paper generator", of course it's going to hook into GPT for content.

You don't have to like the project or think it's interesting, but problems with ChatGPT output are already apparent and well-known so I'm not sure what your comment adds.

[michael9423]

I'm angry at ChatGPT and the like polluting the web, academia and people's minds.

[euvin]

To be fair, I would totally have the same reaction if this project didn't have all the "satire" and "jokes" stamped on it, and if it was advertised for actual use in research papers. And while this project in particular is (relatively) harmless, it is pretty disgusting to see in real paper submissions.

[noah32]

it started as a joke about boeing doors falling off and was quite funny. unfortunately i don't have time write a paper for each person who clicks the generate button so this will have to do.

[michael9423]

To clarify, my comment was directed at chatGPT itself, not your project.

[K0balt]

It was funny. It will be funny again. It just wasn’t -that- funny - this- time.