Researcher: competent peer reviewers are already using LLMs anyway
RexDouglass · x · 2026-10-23
RexDouglass argues that while some see LLM-assisted peer review as disrespectful, it would be stranger for any competent researcher not to use LLMs when reviewing work today. He adds that peer review was never great anyway: on quantitative work, reviewers rarely examined the actual data or code, yet churned out endless framing and robustness-check questions. The thread highlights a quiet shift—LLMs are already inside the review pipeline, and the deeper failure is reviewers' long-standing neglect of data and code verification.
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