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   mhoye (mhoye@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 30-Nov-2025 06:34:52 JST mhoye

   "Controversy erupts at the plagiarism machine conference when it turned out people were using the plagiarism machine to do plagiarism."

   This is genuine comedy.

   https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-03506-6

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     mhoye (mhoye@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 30-Nov-2025 06:34:56 JST mhoye

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     "Controversy at [technology] [conference] as participants found to be using [technology] at [conference]".

     How would that sentence even make sense for any conference or technology that was doing anything worthwhile? Even the NFT people didn't sink to that level of straight up epistemological tail-eating nonsense. What the hell are we even doing here?

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     Rich Felker (dalias@hachyderm.io)'s status on Sunday, 30-Nov-2025 06:35:35 JST Rich Felker

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     @dwf @mhoye 🙄

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     dwf (dwf@social.linux.pizza)'s status on Sunday, 30-Nov-2025 06:35:37 JST dwf

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     @mhoye It might shock you to learn that machine learning has many applications beyond [popular consumer product], and that this particular academic conference predates the chatbot craze by about a decade.

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     fool (fool@brontosin.space)'s status on Sunday, 30-Nov-2025 06:35:44 JST fool

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     @mhoye way back during the mobile and casual games boom, an attendee to the Game Developers Conference remarked on how many of the people from those companies said, basically, "I don't touch the stuff myself" - this would've been when they were inventing various addictive patterns that would later be developed into the modern form that's basically just gambling. so perhaps it's a sign of user-hostile design generally