{"slug": "neurips-desk-rejected-178-papers-for-being-ai-generated-the-detector-flagged-the", "title": "NeurIPS desk-rejected 178 papers for being \"AI-generated\". The detector flagged the track chairs' own papers at 24-69% [N]", "summary": "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.", "body_md": "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", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/neurips-desk-rejected-178-papers-for-being-ai-generated-the-detector-flagged-the", "canonical_source": "https://aiflash.com/news/115603/", "published_at": "2026-09-08 13:00:46+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-09-08 13:28:03.267037+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["ai-policy", "ai-ethics"], "entities": ["NeurIPS", "Pangram"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/neurips-desk-rejected-178-papers-for-being-ai-generated-the-detector-flagged-the", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/neurips-desk-rejected-178-papers-for-being-ai-generated-the-detector-flagged-the.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/neurips-desk-rejected-178-papers-for-being-ai-generated-the-detector-flagged-the.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/neurips-desk-rejected-178-papers-for-being-ai-generated-the-detector-flagged-the.jsonld"}}