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Doesn't matter. Lots of bad papers get caught the moment they're published and read by someone, but there's no followup. The institutions don't care if they pub
by mike_hearn 2y ago
Doesn't matter. Lots of bad papers get caught the moment they're published and read by someone, but there's no followup. The institutions don't care if they publish auto-generated spam that can be detected on literally a single read through, they aren't going to deploy advanced AI on their archives of papers to create consequences a decade later:
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-02134-0 https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-02134-0
- fc417fc802 2y agoAre we talking about "bad papers", "fraud", "academic misconduct", or something else? It's a rather important detail. You would ideally expect blatant fraud to have repercussions, even decades later. You probably would not expect low quality publications to have direct repercussions, now or ever. This is similar to unacceptably low performance at work. You aren't getting immediately reprimanded for it, but if it keeps up consistently then you might not be working there for much longer. > The institutions don't care if they publish auto-generated spam The institutions are generally recognized as having no right to interfere with freedom to publish or freedom to associate. This is a very good thing. So good in fact that it is pretty much the entire point of having a tenure system. They do tend to get involved if someone commits actual (by which I mean legally defined) fraud.