Researchers propose paid submissions and desk rejects as AI slop floods peer review
YiMaTweets · x · 2026-09-20
A debate on AI slop polluting academic peer review: Meta researcher Amir Bar notes "tokens are cheap now," invokes Yao's point that intelligent agents should compress, and proposes concrete fixes—desk rejection based on abstracts only, shorter papers, and canceling the author-reviewer discussion phase since it's "all AI slop anyway." Responder argues the root cause is that generating noise is nearly free while review itself is noisy, and suggests charging submission fees as an economic filter.
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