Earlier quoted context omitted.
The rejection is based on the dishonesty of explicitly committing to standard A and then knowingly violating it, not on LLM use as such. I think that's pretty fair, considering that everyone could have just chosen B if they wanted to.
Sure, I'm just pointing out that the 2% headline figure is very conservative if not misleading as a far greater unknown number in group B will have done exactly the same (which I doubt ICML or those submitting papers actually want). This is probably a first step in clamping down on anyone doing this.
Oh, I misread your post - that's fair!