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Somewhat relevant (and more amusing) is the story of Scigen[1], a tool that three MIT CS PhD students put together to generate fake but legitimate-looking papers in order to troll conferences with low/no acceptance standards.

Their site also tells the story of submitting and attempting to present a paper to shame one of these spammy, fake conferences.

[1] http://pdos.csail.mit.edu/scigen/

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