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NeurIPS desk-rejected 178 papers for being "AI-generated". The detector flagged the track chairs' own papers at 24-69% [N]

NeurIPS desk-rejected 178 papers (18.4% of submissions) for being 'AI-generated' using the proprietary detector Pangram, with no human review or appeal process. The detector flagged the track chairs' own papers at 24-69% AI-generated probability, raising concerns about the reliability of AI detection tools in academic review.

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hey all. the NeurIPS Position Paper Track just used a proprietary AI detector (Pangram) to desk-reject 18.4% of all submissions. no human review, no appeal process, just out. there's been a lot of noise about this, so i went through the actual conference statements and Pangram's technical docs to se

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