'Paper Cliff': the AI extinction scenario where humans drown in AI conference submissions
rao2z · x · 2026-09-21
In an AI aphorism-style joke tagged #ICLR2027, ra2z quips that humans will eventually spend all their waking minutes reviewing AI-generated conference submissions, driving themselves to exhausted extinction — a scenario dubbed the "Paper Cliff" extinction scenario. The meme exaggerates a real anxiety: the surge of AI-generated papers overwhelming academic peer review.
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