Reviewer says 3 of 4 EMNLP submissions were obvious AI slop, some got accept votes
artetxem · x · 2026-09-09
An NLP researcher reports that 3 of the 4 EMNLP papers they reviewed were "obvious AI slop" with zero value — and no other reviewer called it out; some even recommended acceptance. The post contrasts this with AI solving millennium problems, asking whether AI is killing academia or academia is committing suicide.
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