Automation
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- 2005 Jun 2026 SCIgen and the Machines In 2005, three MIT students built a program that generates fake computer science papers — grammatically correct, technically jargon-filled, entirely meaningless. They submitted one to an academic conference. It was accepted. By 2013, over 120 SCIgen papers had been found in IEEE and Springer publications. Then someone submitted a paper consisting entirely of the sentence 'Get Me Off Your Fucking Mailing List' repeated hundreds of times, with graphs. It was accepted with a score of 'excellent.'
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