[TYPES] AI-generated conference submissions

[Stephanie Balzer]

Dear all,

I have now been numerous times on the receiving end on a what it appears 
to me (almost) entirely AI-generated conference submissions that I was 
assigned to review.  Of course I have no proof, but to me it was pretty 
obvious.  The submissions in question consist of an amalgamation of 
meaningful words (sometimes not entirely from the context the paper 
ought to be about), are generally well written, although meaningless, 
and even come backed up with some rules with horizontal lines and proof 
sketches (sometimes from various contexts).  That catch, however, is 
that the whole composition doesn't make sense.

What are we going to do about this as a community?

I have numerous concerns here: My immediate concern is that I do not 
like to spend my time on such submissions.  Even though it's quite 
obvious immediately that the paper is meaningless, it still takes some 
time to make sure and justify the verdict.  Another concern I have is 
the risk that, under time pressure, no due diligence is done, and we may 
end up accepting such a paper.

As a first step we may require authors to declare whether AI was used in 
preparing their submission and what for and we delimit what uses are 
permitted.

Looking forward to your thoughts,

Stephanie