Roasting Academia: NeurIPS is Essentially Just Scrolling OpenReview

abursuc · x · 2026-08-04

A meme has been circulating in the AI research community comparing the traditional 'Google Summer of Code' with the current reality of academia.

The author jokes that the current NeurIPS conference season has essentially become the 'NeurIPS Summer of OpenReview Scrolling.' This humorously roasts the phenomenon in modern AI academic research, where researchers and reviewers spend an exhausting amount of time endlessly reading and responding to peer reviews on the OpenReview platform.

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