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