Referees increasingly allege papers were AI-written, but claims often unsubstantiated
RexDouglass · x · 2026-09-03
Academic jdube6 reports seeing a growing number of referees alleging that papers were written by AI. These allegations are usually unsubstantiated, and absent actual errors in the paper, he is unsure how to act on them—highlighting an emerging problem in peer review where AI-authorship suspicions outpace any standards or evidence for evaluating them.
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