ICLR Passes 50K Submissions With a Week Left, Reviewers Brace for AI Slop
burny_tech · x · 2026-09-21
With still a week before the deadline, ICLR has already received more than 50,000 submissions. The poster laments the incoming flood of "AI slop" reviewers will have to deal with, and says they're not sure they want to review for this edition. An attached image contrasts conference life ten years ago.
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