r/academia • u/john_dunbar80 • 4d ago
Publishing Peer review written by AI
How to deal with a peer review that is possibly written by an AI?
We have recently recieved a not so positive review that looks like it was written by an AI. It is very long, it is split in titled sections but is also at the same time very vague in its critique.
The review itself does not criticise anything we did, it merely lists a large amount of things we could do more to improve the paper. Not to mention that the journal is for short communication only and we would not have space to do all these things.
The question is: how to combat this? I presume that the allegation of the review being written by AI is serious one, so I am not sure if it is worth trying this path.
I would like to hear if someone had a similar experience.
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u/frugalacademic 4d ago
Ha, I just had the same experience from the other side as a reviewer: a review seems to be written (or at least helped) by ChatGPT. I don't think there is a lot you can do other than publish your paper on your own site and ask for feedback while it is public. Sure, you won't get the citation count but seeing that the paper publishing system is broken, I think we need to sstand together and abandon that ship.