Why slop papers are so hard to desk-reject, per a reviewer's complaint
mrdrozdov · x · 2026-10-25
A short but resonant observation on the review crisis in AI publishing: it's genuinely hard to articulate what makes a "slop paper" unpleasant to review — and if it were easy, editors would already be desk-rejecting them. The post captures the gap between reviewers' intuitive distaste for mass-produced low-quality papers and the lack of an executable standard to reject them outright.
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