ICLR tops 50K submissions with a week left, reviewers brace for AI slop
burny_tech · x · 2026-09-20
ICLR has already received more than 50,000 submissions with a week left before the deadline. A researcher warns the incoming wave of AI-generated slop may break the peer review system "at least not in its current form," and says they don't want to review for this edition.
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