Comment by currymj

the harsher the punishment, the more due process required.

i don't think there are any AI detection tools that are sufficiently reliable that I would feel comfortable expelling a student or ending someone's career based on their output.

for example, we can all see what's going on with these papers (and it appears to be even worse among ICLR submissions). but it is possible to make an honest mistake with your BibTeX. Or to use AI for grammar editing, which is widely accepted, and have it accidentally modify a data point or citation. There are many innocent mistakes which also count as plausible excuses.

in some cases further investigation maybe can reveal a smoking gun like fabricated data, which is academic misconduct whether done by hand or because an AI generated the LaTeX tables. punishments should be harsher for this than they are.