ICLR reviewer: two-thirds of my submissions are solid, countering the AI slop narrative
benno_krojer · x · 2026-10-18
An ICLR reviewer pushes back on the narrative that conferences are drowning in AI slop: so far two-thirds of the submissions he is reviewing are well-written, solid papers he genuinely enjoyed reading.
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