A flagship journal in my field uses AI in the editorial process!
Yes, & they even give this vacuous (described below) feedback when they reject papers. I tried pushing back and was told I'm being emotional (sexism red flag) because I can't deal with rejection (lemme laugh for a few minutes).
Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ
AI-assisted text is deadly for academic journal editors and reviewers.
I'm detecting a lot more of it recently as an editor. It's still there in the "Frankencitations" and those little linguistic "tells" like "AI is not the cause. It's the symptom of an underlying reality." But it's more, too. 1/