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Really don't love this new thing where random people track down* my personal email to send me their AI slop papers claiming to solve problems I've worked on. *I am actually guessing they use chat GPT for this too

When I look at them there are clearly ideas from my work, but always only like 8 citations to provide the briefest of context for the problem. Never is a technique or idea credited to someone.

In addition, these papers are written (extruded, really) absolutely terribly. They are horribly difficult to read, if that was something I wanted to do. Yet these people want me to do so, unpaid, and tell them what a brilliant result they have made with their bullshit machine.

I wish more people understood that every minute they spend engaging with AI slop papers is time they could instead spend reading a junior colleague's paper and offering feedback and guidance, or time they could spend with their students helping them see the joy and beauty of math.

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