AI Researchers Complain About Hostile 'Revenge-Scoring' in Top Conference Peer Reviews
deepakns · x · 2026-08-03
AI researcher Deepakns recently vented about the peer review process at top AI conferences like NeurIPS, ICML, and ICLR. He noted that spending excessive time dealing with harsh reviews and rebuttals is turning researchers into cynical, sadistic individuals.
He argues that the academic community is suffering from a toxic "revenge-scoring" culture, particularly within reciprocal review assignments, where reviewers are becoming increasingly hostile, thereby worsening the academic ecosystem.
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