[zerobees]

My impression is that in the past year or so, IEEE journals have been leaning pretty heavily into low-quality, AI-generated articles. And looks like this author produced not one, not two, but three career advice columns in a single day - impressive:

https://spectrum.ieee.org/u/brian-jenney

[Kwpolska]

IEEE Spectrum is one of the many things that is always high on the HN front page, but is never worth reading.

[tietjens]

That’s true but often the discussion in the comments are.

[stodor89]

Open link. Get hit with corposlop imagery. Close article and go read HN comments.

[senderista]

IEEE has been putting their name on garbage journals and conferences since forever.

[musicale]

This is unfortunately true. There are tons of IEEE spamferences. Which is a shame because there are also good IEEE-sponsored (or co-sponsored) conferences (I find ISCA, Hot Chips + Hot Interconnects, and SC to all be interesting systems conferences, for example.)

However IEEE Spectrum is neither a journal nor a conference - it's the flagship magazine of the IEEE.

My impression of IEEE Spectrum (as well as CACM) is that they still feature good technical papers and content written by domain experts, but they also feature junk/filler "articles" and blog posts written by serial contributors who seem to optimize article quantity over quality. Often the title or topic is the only good part.

[Schlagbohrer]

Good sleuthing, this really lowers the IEEE's quality in my eyes