As LLMs make reading papers cheap, researchers fear name bias will worsen
fpedregosa · x · 2026-08-18
Fabian Pedregosa responds to a thread questioning what ML journals serve now that an LLM can read papers instantly: with traditional peer review devalued as a quality certificate, filtering will rely more on author fame and familiarity — big names get bigger and small ones smaller, amplifying the Matthew effect in science.
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