What they are doing is plain cheating the system to get their 3 conference papers so they can get their $150k+ job at FAANG. It's plain cheating with no value.
People that cheat with AI now probably found ways to cheat before as well.
Rookie numbers. After NeurIPS main conference, you’re dumb not to ask for 300K YOY. I watched IBM pay that amount prorated to an intern with a single first author NeurIPS publication.
Cheating by people in high status positions should get the hammer. But it gets the hand-wringing what-have-we-come-to treatment instead.
We are only looking at one side of the equation here, in this whole thread.
This feels a bit like the "LED stoplights shouldn't be used because they don't melt snow" argument.