ICLR reviewer laments flood of 'slopterpretability' AI-slop paper titles

sarahwiegreffe · x · 2026-09-25

Interpretability researcher Sarah Wiegreffe complains that bidding on ICLR papers means seeing so many "slopterpretability" titles — AI-generated slop in interpretability research — that it's depressing. The quip reflects growing concern that LLM-generated low-quality submissions are straining peer review, especially in hot areas like interpretability.

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