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[?]petersuber ยป 🌐
@petersuber@fediscience.org

just added an feature for on and . At the moment, they're using the tool.
nature.com/articles/d41586-025

The bioRxiv announcement makes clear that AI review is optional for authors and that authors might be able to choose from other AI tools in the future.
connect.biorxiv.org/news/2025/

PS: My experiments lead me to think that AI isn't good enough to do peer review yet -- even if (1) it's getting better, (2) it can already help human reviewers, and (3) many human reviewers are worse. Journals that allow it too large a role are abdicating their responsibility and might be deceiving authors and readers. Referees who give it too large a role are abdicating their responsibility and might be deceiving journals, authors, and readers. If you lean in the same direction, let me suggest that these objections don't carry over to preprint servers making AI review an option for authors. This kind of AI review doesn't pretend to be more than it is. When it happens, it's a voluntary decision by authors. Of course authors could have gotten AI feedback on their own, with the AI tools of their choice, and without the preprint-server mediation. But giving them another option for the same kind of feedback is harmless and convenient. Moreover, it creates a training ground to monitor the quality and improvement of the AI tools.

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    [?]Anthony ยป 🌐
    @abucci@buc.ci

    an instance block [SENSITIVE CONTENT]I just instance blocked stereophonic.space on my instance. One person tried a motte-and-bailey fallacy on my most recent post--with implicit anti-vaccine and anti-autism suggestions--and then a second person from the same domain dove in with what sounded like an equally bad faith comment. I've seen this pattern before when I've posted about COVID and it resulted in dogpiling. After looking through a few posts over there, I think I can live without their contributions.