The exact same thing happen to me with a high profile professor who sits on editorial boards of top conferences. He was interested in shilling his dataset far a

The exact same thing happen to me with a high profile professor who sits on editorial boards of top conferences. He was interested in shilling his dataset far and wide, and will do what ever it takes to show the "value add" of his stuff to other tasks. The smart ones just gave him the number the wanted. I did the work and told him the value add is dubious at best. He found someone else to gave him the number he wanted to tell the story he pre-determined, and made claims in the papers that didn’t even line up with the published results in that very paper. The music goes on and the whole experience is a complete waste of life.