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The Call for Papers for #STOC2027 is up! Importantly, the PC "will place substantial weight on the quality of exposition, and clarity of technical arguments and proofs" Also: - Public posting requirement - Required video submission and more. Deadline: ⏰ Nov 2, AoE acm-stoc.org/stoc2027/sto...

I like most of them but not sure how I feel about reviewers being allowed to use LLMs

I agree — not something I am personally happy about. But decisions were made collectively, after thorough discussions.

Ah at least author consent is required

My bad: authors are required to consent to use of LLMs to review. Quote “Authors must explicitly consent to both uses as part of the submission process.”

Yeah...

WAIT WHAT. I read that statement very different. I read it as "authors can choose to consent or not, and must make that explicit." Not "a condition of submitting is that you consent to LLM reviews." Are you telling me the intention is the latter??

Yes it appears so. I had the same misreading…

That's my reading too.

Confirmed with the PC chair that it is indeed that authors must consent as a precondition of submitting.

@ccanonne.github.io - I might as well say this in public now. AI-assisted reviews are not going to have a good start; my worry is that people will review things without making an attempt to struggle with the paper.

Sorry to say it, but the only ethical stance would be for me to immediately resign from the PC. (Spoiler alert: you will not be proved wrong, and even if it turned out to work for STOC, which it won’t, it will not for our “minor” conferences when they’ll start taking inspiration from STOC.)

That's a valid opinion. I'm trying to be pragmatic and effect change, and my resigning from the STOC PC would have had little to no positive effect (not important enough) while preventing me to influence policies in any way (which I could a bit). I'd have, temporarily, felt good about myself though.