Paper rejected over AI-generated review: scholars demand sanctions as trust erodes
paulnovosad · x · 2026-09-30
- Scholar evavivalt reports her paper was rejected based on a negative review that, per the detection tool Pangram, was largely AI-generated and materially incorrect.
- paulnovosad amplifies: whether reviewers draft reviews with AI and then "clean them up" or not, the practice is destroying trust in peer review. He calls for banning and sanctioning AI-written referee reports.
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