Tell me about it... I almost didn't graduate because of this stupidity... I can say that the review process wasn't great when I started but there was a quick decline after GPT 3 came out. Everything became so short sighted and I've (and many others) even been screaming about this wall we were going to hit for years. We absolutely could have avoided this slowdown if we just understood you can put your eggs in more than one basket and stopped saying "fuck theorists". In betting on "scale is all you need" they destroyed the upstream research pipeline that got us to where we are today... And then we can't figure out that there'll be an exponential increase in papers if we keep adding more people, publish 5 papers a year, and reject 80% of them. How do you expect this to be sustainable?
I think at a minimum academia needs to start tracking abuse. Because right now, when we find plagiarism we hide it, usually just disappearing during blind review. These people should get a one year ban on first offense and a 5 year ban for every subsequent occurrence. Make it a citation network, and everyone you've co-authored with in the last year gets flagged for extra review. And FFS, let's not give best fucking paper of the year at the number one ML conference to a fucking intern who hacked the company you interned at. Not only is that just encouraging more highly unethical behavior, but how the fuck can you even trust the results of that paper? I love this field, but how did we get infiltrated by a cult?
I think at a minimum academia needs to start tracking abuse. Because right now, when we find plagiarism we hide it, usually just disappearing during blind review. These people should get a one year ban on first offense and a 5 year ban for every subsequent occurrence. Make it a citation network, and everyone you've co-authored with in the last year gets flagged for extra review. And FFS, let's not give best fucking paper of the year at the number one ML conference to a fucking intern who hacked the company you interned at. Not only is that just encouraging more highly unethical behavior, but how the fuck can you even trust the results of that paper? I love this field, but how did we get infiltrated by a cult?