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by onan_barbarian 4198 days ago
Calling the process of "accepting a SciGen-generated paper into a allegedly peer-reviewed journal" a "precision error" is a bit on the optimistic side. It implies that someone was making a decision after reading the content of the paper, as opposed to, well, just accepting everything in sight.

It doesn't take a "week off" to notice that a paper is gibberish, at the very least.

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Unless the reviewer doesn't actually know anything at all about what he/she claims to.

It wouldn't surprise me at all if most of the general public would be unable to distinguish a SciGen-generated paper from a real one.

What is such a person doing reviewing for the IEEE.