About AI tools spotting errors in research papers as part of peer review.
Has this happened?
Yes 78 (66%)Not sure 32 (27%)No 8 (7%)
Votes cast 1–2 October 2026: 100,590 votes from 9,694 people.
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About AI tools spotting errors in research papers as part of peer review.
Votes cast 1–2 October 2026: 100,590 votes from 9,694 people.
If AI can help spot obvious errors in published papers, it can do it as part of the review process.
If it could explain what's wrong, that would be awesome. Something tells me we don't have that kind of explainability yet. If we do, people could get advice on what's wrong with their research and improve it. So many scientists would lov3 a tool like that. So if ya got it, let's go!