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This is going to be the concrete block which finally breaks the back of the academic peer review system, i.e. it's going to be a DDoS attack on a system which didn't even handle the load before LLMs.

Maybe we'll need to go back to some sort of proof-of-work system, i.e. only accepting physical mailed copies of manuscripts, possibly hand-written...

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I tried Prism, but it's actually a lot more work than just using claude code. The latter allows you to "vibe code" your paper with no manual interaction, while Prism actually requires you review every change.

I actually think Prism promotes a much more responsible approach to AI writing than "copying from chatgpt" or the likes.

> This is going to be the concrete block which finally breaks the back of the academic peer review system

Exactly, and I think this is good news. Let's break it so we can fix at last. Nothing will happen until a real crisis emerges.

Disrupting a system without good proposals for its replacement sounds like a recipe for disaster.

Reign of terror https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reign_of_Terror

There's problems with the medical system, therefore we should set hospitals on fire to motivate them to make them better.

Very myopic comment.

Maybe Open AI will sell you 'Lens' which will assist with sorting through the submissions and narrow down the papers worth reviewing.

Or it makes gatekeepers even more important than before. Every submission to a journal will be desk-rejected, unless it is vouched for by someone one of the editors trusts. And people won't even look at a new paper, unless it's vouched for by someone / published in a venue they trust.

Overleaf basically already has the same thing

That will just create a market for hand-writers. Good thing the economy is doing very well right, so there aren't that many desperate people who will do it en-masse and for peanuts.

Handwriting is super easy to fake with plotters.

Is there something out there to simulate the non-uniformity and errors of real handwriting?

> i.e. only accepting physical mailed copies of manuscripts, possibly hand-written...

And you think the indians will not hand write the output of LLMs ?

Not that I have a better suggestion myself..

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