"AI reviewers beat humans" claim under fire: study used LLM judges and only 10 papers

IanArawjo · x · 2026-10-24

Panos Ipeirotis amplified a study claiming AI reviewing beats human reviewing, warning the next challenge is knowing when "enough is enough" since AI reviewers are never satisfied. Ian Arawjo flags a critical flaw: the study relies on LLM judges to evaluate the AI reviewer's work and computes human alignment on only 10 papers — without asking experts to actually read those papers to verify the truth and importance of claims before judging accept/reject.

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