AAAI-27 desk rejection over incredibly minor abstract modifications [D]

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Researchers at AAAI-27 are reporting immediate desk rejections for minor cosmetic tweaks to their abstracts after the registration deadline. Despite guidelines suggesting only 'substantive' changes are banned, the program committee is allegedly auto-axing papers with no path for appeal. It's a grim reminder that in top-tier AI publishing, the administrative bureaucracy is often more rigid than the models being studied.