Joke proposal: random 15-minute oral exams for ICLR co-authors to kill ghost authorship
May_F1_ · x · 2026-09-03
Responding to ICLR's new blog post on submission policies, a tongue-in-cheek proposal suggests randomly selecting co-authors for a 15-minute oral exam on their paper — under which the author-count distribution would peak at 1, the tail would vanish after 3, and AI-generated papers would decline.
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