David Levin

I emailed papersadmin@siggraph.org to avoid potential conflicts of interest. Let's see what the response will be.

Every one of my 3 #SIGGRAPH 2026 has one review (of four) that gptzero detects as 100% AI generated (not ai polished, or mixed, but 100% generated). 2/3 of those AI tagged reviews argue to reject the paper.

in 2/3 cases that AI review is arguing to reject the paper.

It takes real non effort to not even have an llm do your review for you. A true connoisseur of the lazy arts.

We lowered the bar so much it just doesn’t matter any more 😬

SIGGRAPH reviews are out, and I’m always reminded how, since SIGGRAPH doesn’t make anonymized reviews or discussion public, there is not even a minor disincentive to writing poor reviews (often violating the reviewing policy itself). I’ve been asking for this for years. It’s never going to happen.

I think you mean the LLMs writing the reviews are dead wrong. Weird how so many reviews have bulleted lists now …

Can't believe my new website didn't make it. www.diwlevin.com

My website has previously been described as
"where the internet goes to die" and
"the virtual embodiment of a calling card scam" and
"detrimental to <my> career".

Despite these compliments, I felt it was time to make something slightly more useful: www.diwlevin.com

Not sure I understand this, perhaps Claude wrote this reply

That’s the thing, now it has some value because LLMs need such a big data corpus. That multiplicity is what lets them learn a distribution. Now we can argue about how much value each nugget is worth (a lot to a little) but value it has.

I think it might also be a legal violation of the licences (IANAL). It would be fantastic if various government entities would grow a spine and enforce punitive financial penalties for this sort of thing, that get funnelled back to creators. Obviously the code has value and people should be paid.

the centralization of power is definitely a legit concern. I guess there major solution is don't use these tools. I'm wondering how you feel about a world where these coding agents are trained and run locally, rather than as a SAAS type model ?

for me it largely replaced cutting and pasting code off of stack overflow with a more efficient workflow. There's not substitute for thoroughly checking and debugging, but it helps me prototype ideas much faster.

you plAIyer

so its a blossoming romance ? You two are spending an awful lot of time together though ....

The man who hated robots finds love with a robot.

oh yes, repost this plz :)

I've wanted more of these types of papers forever in graphics. Benchmarks and evaluation are crucial in any mature field to help establish state-of-the-art. SCA 2026 is a great place to do that.

"This year ... we would like to encourage submissions focusing on experimental/benchmark evaluation of existing methods. ... such submissions will ... judged on their ... experimental/benchmark design and methodology, insights gained and benefit to the community at large."

The Symposium on Computer Animation is Coming!

BARCELONA, SPAIN. JULY 8 - 10, 2026!

Papers Abstract Deadline: April 10, 2026
Poster Deadline: June 1, 2026

Website: sca.graphics

Call for papers : computeranimation.org/instructions...

Barcelona > LA (Come on: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sagrada...)

Whoah Bruno that’s way too many … I think you have a problem :)

OMG such an honour for me !

Can you imagine being the CFO “the robots cost a million each AND we still gotta buy the hats? “

The robot doesn’t even need the hat !

Reminds me of photo-ops where politicians visit a job site. Look they’re wearing a hard hat and holding a hammer, they understand !

Cynically I think all this is a weird teleopereration play … if you can have your workers remotely controlling your robot factory all of a sudden you can do a lot more outsourcing and avoid point of origin manufacturing restrictions.

Don’t worry spaceX is going to take all that IPO money and buy a million Optimus robots.

“Guys, you know that doctor octopus, you know from Spider-Man.. like what if he was all robot !”

“Bro that’s genius”

My PhD student Abhishek Madan is getting ready to graduate and he’s looking for a postdoc or industry position. Checkout his website www.dgp.toronto.edu/~amadan/

He’s been an amazing student , basically does all his research by himself. Fantastic math and implementation acumen.