NeurIPS AI Detector Desk-Rejects 18.4% of Papers, Misfiring on Organizers' Own

NeurIPS 2026's Position Paper Track used Pangram's AI detector to screen all 969 submissions, desk-rejecting 178 (18.4%) for AI authorship—yet the same tool flagged papers written by the organizing committee itself, fueling doubts about detector reliability.

2026-09-19 ~ 2026-09-20 · 2 related posts

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