Post #2574648
2026-05-13 09:43 UTC
Serving on a programme committee in 2026, one is confronted with the effects of generative AI and it isn't pretty. Submissions that would previously be obviously under-baked now have a distractor layer of polish and puffery... full of fancy-sounding, superficially on-topic but meaningless phrases.
I will be predisposed to declining future invitations unless/until we can create stricter anti-genAI policies... not sure exactly what they would look like, but need to lower the oblox levels somehow.
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@david_chisnall@infosec.exchange 2026-05-13 13:19
@stephenrkell@recurse.social This is precisely why I am declining all PC and review requests unless the organisation can show me that they have a process to validate that the papers correspond to real work. We need a model where someone actually sees the research and vouches for its authenticity, or a model where people publish preprints and code early and then get the stamp of approval after other people have had the chance to kick the tyres. The anonymous submission of some plausible looking text model simply does not work in a world with LLMs.