Researchers Criticize AI Academia for Safe, Meaningless Post-Training Tweaks
plopesresearch · x · 2026-08-01
AI researchers are criticizing the peer review system in academia, arguing that it forces scholars to convince "average people" of the value of completely wild ideas. Consequently, researchers play it safe and focus on boring, generic topics that fail to drive real progress.
The thread calls out the massive amount of academic effort wasted on meaningless post-training tweaks, prompt engineering, minor architectural adjustments, and variant models, urging peers to ignore the trend and pursue truly wild, unconventional research.
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