EleutherAI researcher publicly blacklists academic for AI slop papers
BlancheMinerva · x · 2026-09-21
- EleutherAI researcher Blanche Minerva publicly called out researcher yifanzhang, saying that despite liking some of his papers, his track record of posting "AI slop masquerading as research" has effectively blacklisted him from working at or collaborating with EleutherAI.
- She says she's speaking out to change academia's social incentive structure, hoping the warning makes him reconsider before posting slop again.
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