Program Exposed for Misleading High School Students Into Paying to Perform ML Research Misconduct
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An r/MachineLearning post (155 upvotes, 18 comments) exposes a program run by one Kevin Zhu that charges high school students to contribute to ML papers — effectively buying authorship while the students unknowingly perform what amounts to academic misconduct. The investigation started on OpenReview and highlights growing integrity concerns in ML research as paper volume explodes.