NeurIPS 2026 just desk-rejected hundreds of papers because an AI detector said they were AI-written (https://blog.neurips.cc/2026/06/02/ai-generated-papers-in-the-neurips-2026-position-paper-track/). I understand why they did it. Reviewer time is scarce, and a flood of slop submissions is a real threat to peer review. But here's where it gets