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This epidemic is very visible when you peek into replies of any physics influencer on Xitter. Dozens of people are straight copy-pasting walls of LaTeX mince from ChatGPT/Grok and asking for recognition.

Perhaps epidemic isn't the right word here because they must have been already unwell. At least these activities are relatively harmless.

Previously on HN, regarding a related phenomenon: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44646797

Ah yes the famous vibe-physicist T.Kalanick ;)