AIBearisharXiv – CS AI · 10h ago7/10
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Position: Academic Conferences are Potentially Facing Denominator Gaming Caused by Fully Automated Scientific Agents
A new threat called Agentic Denominator Gaming could exploit AI conferences' stable acceptance rates by flooding submissions with low-quality papers generated by automated agents, inflating the denominator to boost legitimate papers' acceptance odds without intending publication of the spam itself. This systemic vulnerability exposes academic peer review to coordinated attacks that would degrade review quality and increase reviewer burnout while requiring institutional policy reforms beyond technical solutions.