NeurIPS desk-rejected 178 papers for being "AI-generated". The detector flagged the track chairs' own papers at 24-69% [N]

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hey all. the NeurIPS Position Paper Track just used a proprietary AI detector (Pangram) to desk-reject 18.4% of all submissions. no human review, no appeal process, just out. there's been a lot of noise about this, so i went through the actual conference statements and Pangram's technical docs to see how this actually went down. the reality is wildly worse than just "the AI detector made a mistake." here are the receipts: The track chairs would have failed their own test. Independent researchers