The World's Top AI Academic Conference Was Hacked by AI: Over 15,000 Review Comments Written by AI
ICLR 2026 Review System Suffered Large-Scale AI Infiltration: Detection Shows Among 76,000 Reviews, 21% Were Fully Generated by Large Models, 35% Were Polished by AI, and Only 43% Were Written by Humans. Machine Reviews Are Longer, Score Higher, but Often Contain Errors Such as 'Hallucinated Citations', Triggering Protests from Authors. The Organizing Committee Issued an Emergency Ban, Planning to Block AI-Generated Content at the Submission Stage to Rebuild Trust.