AI Top Conference Peer Review Culture Called Out for Hostile 'Revenge Scoring'
anpaure · x · 2026-08-03
AI researchers are venting on social media about the toxic environment of academic peer review. One researcher noted that spending excessive time handling reviews and rebuttals for top conferences like NeurIPS, ICML, and ICLR is making researchers hostile.
The author suspects a rise in 'revenge scoring' among reciprocal reviewers, creating a vicious cycle of negative scoring. Other academics echoed this sentiment, agreeing that the peer review culture is becoming increasingly hostile.
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