LLM Clustering Could Separate ICLR Slop Papers Into Their Own Cluster, Devs Argue
joelbot3000 · x · 2026-09-26
Developer joelbot3000 suggests that clustering all initial OpenReview submissions with LLMs will, a year or two from now, obviously yield a "slop" cluster separable from LLM-writing-assisted papers or earnest first-year PhD student work. Follow-up discussion notes that given the outrage over slop papers overrunning ICLR, this kind of slop-identification research is likely to happen.
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