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. Download the human-prompted AI-generated reports as Word documents here: Download ChatGPT simulation tests with many matching text patterns here: Read about the journal’s response here: See new controlled AI detection tests here, including three human controls and one AI control. ➔ To clarify a point in Emanuel Maiberg’s 404 Media article, the online AI detectors do not flag the reviewers’