AI-written papers take far longer to review, economist says he now declines them
paulnovosad · x · 2026-10-05
Responding to the objection that badly written papers were always rejectable, economist Paul Novosad stresses that AI-written papers take much longer to evaluate — hours spent discovering badness — so he has opted out of giving them the benefit of the doubt.
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