Peer review hit a new low: reviewers now skip reading papers amid a mountain of slop
nsaphra · x · 2026-11-06
nsaphra notes peer review was always a lottery—reviewers sometimes lacked expertise or simply disliked the work—but a new outlier has emerged: reviewers giving up without reading a paper at all, likely because they face a mountain of AI-generated slop submissions.
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