AI Reddit Mar 23, 2026 3 min read
A March 18 Reddit thread on r/MachineLearning debated whether ICML 2026 went too far by desk-rejecting submissions tied to reviewers who violated Policy A. ICML's official materials confirm the two-policy system, the sanction language, and a watermark-based detection process that was manually reviewed rather than based on generic AI-text detectors.