Biglab researcher slams top AI conferences for overclaims and fraud
burny_tech · x · 2026-08-05
AI researcher kellerjordan0 claims that biglab researchers now read almost zero papers, viewing top AI conferences like ICLR, ICML, and NeurIPS as mainly full of overclaims and fraud. Several academic reviewers echoed this sentiment, lamenting that the publication system is broken and calling for more empirical rigor in science as AI streamlines tedious tasks.
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