Referee laments AI-written papers: journals can require proof that authors actually think
paulnovosad · x · 2026-09-24
Economist Paul Novosad, signing off as 'a demoralized referee,' argues that 'writing is thinking' and it's entirely reasonable for academic journals to require submitters to prove at least one academic has thought about a topic enough to write pages in their own words — a pointed response to LLM-assisted paper writing.
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