AI practitioner: trend papers flop within 24 hours, I stopped reading them
kfountou · x · 2026-11-03
kfountou argues that recent viral AI "trend" papers almost all flop within 24 hours — likely a mix of authors not being fully honest and overly strict community review. She says she no longer reads them, since they rarely teach anything nontrivial beyond what you'd notice just by using the models and experimenting yourself.
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