NeurIPS reviewers and authors get joked into an Opus version race
maier_ak · x · 2026-07-25
NeurIPS review season turns into an “Opus arms race” joke
In a reply thread about NeurIPS reviews, the poster jokes that neither side is reading or writing from scratch anymore:
- the paper is written with one Claude Opus version,
- the reviewer writes the review with a newer Opus version,
- the authors then rebut with yet another version.
The punchline is that the whole review process feels like an AI-assisted arms race, with the only hope being that a newer model doesn’t ship before rebuttals close.
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