An analysis of submissions to the NeurIPS Mechanistic Interpretability Workshop reveals a rise in AI-generated content, or "slop," since 2024, according to workshop organizer @andyarditi. The study, based on data from three workshops, found that the review process has allowed some low-quality submissions but remains largely effective at filtering noise.
An unexpected benefit of having run 3 mech interp workshops: we have a great dataset for analysing the rise of LLM slop in submissions! @andyarditi investigated how much AI slop we let in, how things have changed since 2024, and more Our review process isn't entirely noise!
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