This update follows on earlier posts (20 Dec. 2023; 31 Jan. and 7 Feb. 2024) reporting on the use of generative AI in the peer review of a research paper. I received an official response by email from the mediAzioni journal editors on Thursday, 22 February 2024. Attached to that email were detailed responses from both human reviewers (which I do not provide here). I appreciate that the journal has made the decision to involve the reviewers, whose identities yet

[This post has been updated, below, and see here most recently for the journal’s response.] This post provides an update on the AI peer review incident reported previously on this site, in December 2023. The article described here had been commissioned for a special issue of mediAzioni journal (Università di Bologna – Forlì), to be published in late 2024 as conference proceedings of the TaCo conference, on “taboo” in language, held in Rome in September 2022. The assessment of the

[Many other details and pieces of evidence have been added since the original post below, across three posts on this website.] It has come to my attention that academics are now using generative AI (Chat GPT or whatever) to conduct their peer reviews. Just now, in mid-December 2023, I received two reviewer reports, written in English, from a language journal based in Italy. Both reviewers assessed my submitted article as being “suitable for publication if significant changes are made.” Both