Researchers say AI has broken peer review: endless nitpicks, no one actually reads
IanArawjo · x · 2026-09-23
Researcher Selçuk Orkmaz argues that "AI just killed the peer-review": reviewers and editors no longer actually read papers, while AI-generated reviews find new issues in every revision round, eventually leading to rejection. He warns this loop is "killing science itself" — a first-hand observation of AI degrading review quality, though without systematic data.
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