AI RESEARCH

Policies Permitting LLM Use for Polishing Peer Reviews Are Currently Not Enforceable

arXiv CS.AI

ArXi:2603.20450v1 Announce Type: cross A number of scientific conferences and journals have recently enacted policies that prohibit LLM usage by peer reviewers, except for polishing, paraphrasing, and grammar correction of otherwise human-written reviews. But, are these policies enforceable? To answer this question, we assemble a dataset of peer reviews simulating multiple levels of human-AI collaboration, and evaluate five state-of-the-art detectors, including two commercial systems.