Researcher suspects peer reviewer outsourced critique to AI
A researcher writes that peer-review comments on one of their manuscripts in January were generic, addressed subheadings that didn't exist and suggested improving a non-existent discussion section. Comparing them with output from ChatGPT-4o, Gemini 1.5Pro and DeepSeek-V3, the researcher found striking similarities but has no definitive proof. The editor-in-chief called the findings "concerning and revealing".
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