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Jonathan Corbet
corbet
If you run an operation that pays freelance authors for articles, you get a *lot* of people trying to sell you the output from their slop factory of choice. These pitches far exceed the legitimate ones at this point.
Today we got a pitch for an article about the load-balancing scheduler regression caused by the sched_ext framework in the 6.11 release. Somebody has clearly put a bit more than the usual amount of attention into the sort of topic that might appeal to @lwn. There is only one little problem... that regression had nothing to do with sched_ext, which was merged in 6.12. The pitch was a bunch of authoritative-sounding bullshit; the article would surely have been more of the same.
Sometimes I truly lose hope about humanity's ability to keep its head above the flood of this stuff.
Today we got a pitch for an article about the load-balancing scheduler regression caused by the sched_ext framework in the 6.11 release. Somebody has clearly put a bit more than the usual amount of attention into the sort of topic that might appeal to @lwn. There is only one little problem... that regression had nothing to do with sched_ext, which was merged in 6.12. The pitch was a bunch of authoritative-sounding bullshit; the article would surely have been more of the same.
Sometimes I truly lose hope about humanity's ability to keep its head above the flood of this stuff.
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Kermode
gemlog@tilde.zone
@mpjgregoire
Just wait. You are about to be hit with LLM auto-generated story submissions.
Yummy.
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TomKrajci 🇺🇦 🏳️🌈 🏳️⚧️
KrajciTom@universeodon.com@corbet @SpaceLifeForm @mpjgregoire @gemlog
Back before AI there were paper generators: (Happily, they still exist)
https://davidsd.org/2010/03/the-snarxiv/
https://snarxiv.org/vs-arxiv/
https://www.elsewhere.org/journal/pomo/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paper_generator
And who can forget the Sokal Affair:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sokal_affair
https://physics.nyu.edu/faculty/sokal/transgress_v2/transgress_v2_singlefile.html
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