Researcher Warns Peer Review Is Dying: Bid-Phase Abstracts Can Be Stolen and Rebuilt by AI in Days
deliprao · x · 2026-09-09
Delip Rao argues peer review at AI conferences (ACL, AAAI, ICLR, NeurIPS) will die soon: reviewers bid on submission abstracts, so bad actors can grab abstracts during the bid phase, use AI to reconstruct the submission within days, and arXiv it as supposedly 'concurrent work.' Follow-up discussion says this is a genuine, exploitable vulnerability in traditional scientific publishing.
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