“So why would I go through the pretense of peer review if the process is ultimately outsourced to an algorithm? I do not care for the aesthetics of peer review. We are not children playing academics. We are supposed to be doing substantive, not performative work.”
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Timothée Poisot
We finally got a ChatGPT generated review on a manuscript. So I wrote about how we handle these reviews is a sign of whether we have given up on peer review altogether.
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there is a movement to automate peer review and it started already with the 'duplicate image' crowd
we are all busy but make time to review papers because it makes for reliable science
Rejecting years of work because a cold computer analysis says its 'wrong' will not end well
It still doesn't know that people have 5 fingers and toes on each appendage.