failing the Turing test
The World Multi-Conference on Systemics, Cybernetics, and Informatics accepted a paper entitled Rooter: A Methodology for the Typical Unification of Access Points and Redundancy. Only problem: this paper was generated by a computer program called SCIgen, which was written to generate computer science papers using context-free grammar. The resulting paper is complete gibberish. Obviously, the WMSCI overlords did not actually read the paper prior to accepting it for presentation at the conference, which calls into question (a) the quality of other papers accepted for presentation, (b) the WMSCI's ability to detect total BS when they see it and (c) the WMSCI's credibility. Guess which conference to which I will never submit any papers.
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