NeurIPS joke imagines paper, review and rebuttal all written with newer Opus versions

ziv_ravid · x · 2026-07-24

A NeurIPS-season joke turns model versioning into a reviewer arms race: you write the paper with Opus 4.6, the reviewer writes the review with Opus 4.7, and the rebuttal comes from Opus 4.8.

The punchline is that Opus 5 might ship before the discussion window closes, which makes the whole exchange feel like a speedrun of AI-assisted academic publishing.

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