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		warkdarrior 1 day ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: GPTZero finds 100 new hallucinations in NeurIPS 20... > If you measure raw number of papers (more common in developing countries and low-tier universities), you incentivize a flood of junk. This is exactly what rewarding replication papers (that reproduce and confirm an existing paper) will lead to.

pixl97 1 day ago [–]

And yet if we can't reproduce an existing paper, it's very possible that existing paper is junk itself.

Catch-22 is a fun game to get caught in.

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