Reviewer: AI-Generated Papers Look Polished but Are Hard to Actually Read
Bollegala · x · 2026-10-09
Researcher Bollegala, writing from a reviewer's perspective, argues that AI-generated papers are fast to produce but not necessarily readable. Recurring problems: overly complex sentences with nested clauses, polite yet content-free phrasing, excessively dry and granular experiment descriptions, and ambiguous anaphora that humans must reread several times to follow. She draws an analogy to her first experience with TeX 25 years ago — perfectly typeset documents create an illusion of perfection that polished generated text now replicates.
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