Comment by maleldil
15 hours ago
This already happens. It's clear when a reviewer used an LLM, and it's very annoying for the authors that have to respond to what are usually low quality, superficial reviews.
15 hours ago
This already happens. It's clear when a reviewer used an LLM, and it's very annoying for the authors that have to respond to what are usually low quality, superficial reviews.
Boy do I have news for you! :-D
"low quality, superficial reviews" have always been around. Reviewing is most often an unpaid, thankless job and many times reviewers barely put in the effort.
Similar experience to sibling: a disinterested human isn't going to ask for 30 different detailed things to add to, or change in, the paper that could technically be improved but aren't worth the additional page real estate. An LLM reviewer definitely does this.
There is still a difference. Previously, if the review was low quality and superficial, it was also quite short and easy to answer. Now I receive fully LLM-written reviews of 2-3 pages (or more) of superficial comments asking for tons of additional text and experiments that are almost always outside the scope of the work. Answering such a review requires a lot of work with absolutely no gain.
To be fair, low quality superficial reviews were also not uncommon before LLMs…