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Science journal Nature promotes using chatbots for academic peer review (pivot-to-ai.com)

submitted 19 hours ago by dgerard@awful.systems to c/techtakes@awful.systems

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[–] o7___o7@awful.systems 4 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago)

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[–] regrub@lemmy.world 15 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago) (1 children)

In one of the papers I'm currently working on (not in Nature), I strongly suspect one of the reviewers used an LLM to write their review. Seems like they wrote 20ish comments suggesting minor grammar changes with only a handful of comments that actually address the content of the paper.

Answering comments/suggestions made by a chatbot rather than a subject expert is a waste of everyone's time and likely won't do what actual peer review is intended to do: set a quality standard and filter for the journal.

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 5 points 16 hours ago

yeah that's the tell

[–] smiletolerantly@awful.systems 7 points 19 hours ago

What could possibly go wrong!