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Last spring, Guillaume Cabanac—a computer scientist at the University of Toulouse—and two colleagues noticed a weird trend: A surge of published comp-sci academic papers that were using weird phrases in place of well-established ones (previously at Boing Boing).
For example, instead of "artificial intelligence", the authors would write "counterfeit consciousness". — Read the rest