Program misleading high school students into paying to perform academic misconduct in ML Research [D]

In three linesA paid program (Algoverse AI Research) marketed to high school students produces mass NeurIPS 2025 submissions (289 claimed acceptances) with obvious errors: duplicate results, abstracts contradicting findings, AI-generated citations, unreviewed datasets. Kevin Zhu, program-affiliated, lists 158 publications and 468 coauthors on OpenReview.

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