Comment by low_tech_love

It’s important to notice that flagged papers were still accepted; anyone who spends any time around researchers knows the fact that most people are salivating over AI. That’s why they don’t want to punish it, they’re also using it. And they don’t want to create an environment where it is overly punished, at least not while they can take advantage of it. There is only a small amount of serious people complaining, but in my experience the opinion of the vast majority is “stop worrying and learn to love it”. Which brings to the surface a very harsh reality: almost nobody gave a damn about the science to begin with.