Examples
Worked examples
- Is an instance
A reviewer using a local LLM (not cloud-hosted) only to check grammar in their own already-written review
Counter-examples
Looks similar, but isn't
- Not an instance
A reviewer pasting a manuscript into ChatGPT and asking for a review (prohibited by NIH and most major publishers)
Editorial commentary
The principal risks are confidentiality breach (uploading an unpublished manuscript to a third-party AI service violates the trust relationship between editor, reviewer, and authors) and abdication of the reviewer’s intellectual responsibility. NIH (2023) and several major publishers have banned uploading manuscripts to AI systems for review.
References
- NIH Notice NOT-OD-23-149 on Generative AI in Peer Review (2023)
- Elsevier Reviewer AI Policy (2023)
Also known as
AI-assisted peer review · LLM peer review
Machine-readable encodings
Use in your systems
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