SE veteran calls for de-anonymized peer review to catch AI-generated paper spam

moarbugs · x · 2026-09-19

Software engineering researcher @devanbu complains that reviewers are receiving submissions full of AI-written, incomprehensible prose, and suggests it may be time to revert to de-anonymized review to identify who is flooding conferences — even threatening to decline reviewing for venues that don't reveal author identities.

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