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Several people with no technical background told me they were reviewing for NeurIPS using agents for all reviewing--stating they didn't understand what the agent did, nor the underlying paper. Asked how they could trust the agent's review, they said they assume the author would have caught any errors.
Several people with no technical background told me they submitted to NeurIPS using agents for all coding—stating they didn't understand what the agent did, nor underlying code. Asked how they could trust the code/results, they said they assume reviewers will catch any errors.
(In case it wasn't clear this is satire but probably accurate)
@PeterHndrsn Tbf, the sad irony is that the agents they use are probably better at doing research than these types of researchers 😅 (doesn't excuse their behavior of course -- if anything, these authors' names should be in the *acknowledgements* for prompting, rather than the author list)