Paper boom doesn't mean lower quality — past NeurIPS papers were just as useless
xwang_lk · x · 2026-09-29
Responding to concerns that the surge of AI papers dilutes quality, xwanglk argues more papers don't mean lower quality, and past NeurIPS papers were often just as useless or worse. The real question the boom forces: what are papers for? We need them for open science, not as certificates for systems to game.
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