Q&A from the slop trenches

Between the two of us, we reviewed 22 paper submissions this summer, spread across NeurIPS , WACV , and TerraBytes (a geospatial workshop at ECCV). Fifteen of the 22 (68%) contained entirely fabricated citations, fabricated author lists for existing papers, and/or were clearly LLM-generated (e.g. hallucinated technical jargon, nonsensical writing, irrelevant citations). This is called being in the…