"I finally found a human-written ICLR paper" — AI-written papers now the joke
peter_richtarik · x · 2026-10-22
Researcher Adil Soubki joked that he "finally found a human-written ICLR paper," comparing it to finding a silver quarter or pre-nuclear steel—a jab at how AI-assisted (or fully AI-written) papers now flood academic venues. Optimizer researcher Peter Richtárik quote-posted it with laughing emojis, and it resonated widely in the ML community.
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