greCAPTCHA: testing manuscript-specific understanding to catch AI-written papers
Dr_Atoosa · x · 2026-09-17
In a thread, the author presents their paper proposing greCAPTCHA, an assessment approach that evaluates an author's manuscript-specific understanding rather than passively inspecting prose. It targets the flood of AI-assisted/AI-generated submissions hitting peer-review venues, universities, and education institutes with insufficient human oversight, where author names are no longer a reliable signal of expertise.
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