NeurIPS track chair warns LLM-written papers turn peer review into a Potemkin village
dgrobinson · x · 2026-09-18
A NeurIPS track chair reports seeing papers, reviews, rebuttals — even some Area Chair outputs — written by LLMs, turning peer review into a 'Potemkin village' where no one is accountable and neither individual understanding nor collective epistemic progress advances. Commenters call it an important counterpoint to claims that AI will rapidly accelerate science.
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