It’s basically academia washing for the new tech bubble. They saw how closely and uncritically people followed papers about COVID and realized if they released

It’s basically academia washing for the new tech bubble. They saw how closely and uncritically people followed papers about COVID and realized if they released “papers” about whatever llm product they were working on it would lend some kind of credibility that they never got with cryptocurrency or Web 3.0 or the metaverse.