Counterintuitive Take: Papers Refusing Any AI Polish May Be the Bad Sign
ObhishekSaha · x · 2026-10-06
Responding to littmath's argument for pre-reading signals, ObhishekSaha proposes a counterintuitive heuristic: papers with 0% Pangram score, mediocre writing, and no trace of AI use anywhere are a bad sign — if an author couldn't be bothered to polish their human-written paper with AI, that itself signals low effort.
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