TMLR Reviewers Quit Over Aggressive Desk Rejections Amid Rising AI Slop
miniapeur · x · 2026-10-29
AlexShtf announced he will no longer volunteer to review for TMLR, arguing its aggressive desk-rejection policy — while filtering lots of slop — produces many false positives that discard months or years of work based on an AE's intuition. miniapeur countered that the quality of the specific submission is unknown, and that the AI slop situation is becoming untenable — he's genuinely tempted to stop reviewing for conferences over it.
The dispute highlights academia's dilemma: both sides agree slop is a serious problem, but sharply disagree on desk-reject false-positive rates.
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