Google Scholar turns up fake paper on AI cannabis farming with Hinton, LeCun and Altman as co-authors

wavefnx · x · 2026-10-05

Browsing Google Scholar, user wavefnx stumbled on an absurd listing: a paper on "From Seed to Startup: How AI Is Revolutionizing Cannabis Cultivation" with practically every major AI figure—Geoffrey Hinton, Yann LeCun, Andrew Ng, Fei-Fei Li, Sam Altman, Ilya Sutskever, Dario Amodei, Jensen Huang, Elon Musk—listed as co-authors.

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