Guess I am one of the 🤡 I just posted about a lot of AI-slop in reviews lately where the recommendations for revision are completely unrelated to the manuscript. Not sure why these reviews are being passed on to authors.

Also - any issues (copyright) with uploading MS to LLMs for review?

As a community, we can and must do better. Peer-reviewed publications are still the gold standard, and we all play a role in keeping them that way.

Anyone else seeing a lot of this?

Also a shoutout to the Editors who should be watching for this slop and not passing it along to authors.

End rant

Reviewers: I'd much rather you decline than submit slop. We owe it to the field and to our peers to uphold the value of peer review. Low-quality, AI-generated reviews do a disservice to everyone: authors, journals, and the credibility of science itself.

Have also seen it in the decision letters returned where reviewer comments (not just my own) are included. The slop is a waste of time in a process that is already too often too long.

The comments are often completely irrelevant to the manuscript. I recently had to write a response-to-reviewer comments, stating “not applicable” as my reply. It's frustrating, unhelpful, and frankly disrespectful to the scientific process.

Will say that when I was an AE, if it was over 2 months I would review myself as long as there was at least one other reviewer. Was way too much work - but at least the authors got a decision without waiting another 2 months.

Having acted as AE for 2 different journals, I know how hard it is to find reviewers, so I hare declining invitations - but have had to a few times this month due to the influx!

Same - mine just went up yesterday. But compared to peer review process - this was fantastic. Very grateful. Curious - does anyone know how many went back up (approved) vs permanently removed because they were garbage?

Taking EMA to a new level! #MeasurementIsTheNewBlack

Interesting topic - a few highlights?

It’s not just me!!! 🤯

I find it takes me a LONG time. I write A LOT, then review & cut all the extra that spewed out of me. Have a few reviews that I’ve appreciated the tone that I reread every now and then as exemplars to remind me of the right balance that I hope to achieve.

Congrats @page-gould.bsky.social 👏🏻🎉

Thanks for the help 🙏
First preprint up 🙂

osf.io/preprints/ps...

And done ✅

www.linkedin.com/posts/lindsa...

Just read it this afternoon and was going to share on LI next week. It is indeed a gem. 💎