Reviewer laments ICLR review motivation is gone as AI erases respect for authors' effort
AvivTamar1 · x · 2026-10-21
Robotics researcher Aviv Tamar says a key motivation for spending serious effort on peer review used to be appreciating the human effort behind each paper — a motivation he argues no longer exists in the AI-writing era, calling the trend a "race to the bottom" for ICLR 2027.
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