ICLR Reviewing Sparks Debate on Detecting AI-Written Papers

A Reddit thread discusses ICLR OpenReview reviewing, noting this may be the first major conference with large-scale automated research submissions; AI-written text is increasingly hard to detect, leaving reviewers unsure how to identify slop papers.

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