Top AI conference uses AI detector to reject papers for allegedly being written by AI

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neurips ai-detector paper-rejection controversy academic-integrity

Summary

NeurIPS 2026 used a proprietary AI-text detector to desk-reject papers for alleged AI policy violations without validating it on the target distribution; the same detector later flagged conference chairs' own papers as likely AI-written.

[This LinkedIn post](https://www.linkedin.com/posts/s-berezin_pangram-assigned-69-ai-generated-probability-ugcPost-7467974774019887105-Hf72/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop&rcm=ACoAADmVfPUBg_jGQN0hkmxmj0xCG8dfBfzh0KI) argues that NeurIPS 2026 used a proprietary AI-text detector to desk-reject papers for alleged AI-policy violations, without validating the detector on the actual target distribution. The author then fed recent papers by NeurIPS Position Paper Track Chairs into the same detector and Pangram assigned them high AI scores, including 69%, 45%, 36%, and 24% AI.
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