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I flagged two research papers for fake authors and both were accepted as orals

Hacker News Top · 2026-07-30 Cached

A reviewer recounts flagging two papers with fabricated authors that were accepted as orals, and reports that 68% of 22 reviewed submissions contained fabricated citations, LLM-generated content, or fake author lists. Multiple studies confirm tens of thousands of such papers in 2025 alone, with peer reviews increasingly AI-generated.

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