Conference papers are cooked! [D]

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Reviewers for major AI conferences like ICLR are reporting a massive surge in low-quality, potentially AI-generated submissions that lack basic rigor. This influx is overwhelming the peer-review system, making it harder for genuine breakthroughs to get noticed amidst the noise of half-baked papers. It highlights a growing crisis in how the research community handles the sheer volume of modern AI output.