NeurIPS 2026 Reviewer: AI-Generated Rebuttals (and Paper) [D]

One of the papers I reviewed has what seems to be entirely LLM-generated rebuttals, and the original paper is also clearly LLM-generated, with Claude-speak everywhere. While the authors acknowledge LLM writing assistance in the checklist, it really annoys me personally - what is clearly Claude's writing style is very difficult to parse, and indicates a lack of effort to me. While I'm trying to remain objective and realize it's my role just to judge the actual content of the work, I don't feel incentivized to assign a lot of weight to an argument that is fully AI-generated and don't like the idea of engaging with slopped papers (and their "authors") at NeurIPS. This is a partially just a rant and partially asking for advice on how to proceed with my response to the rebuttals.