Peer review in the LLM (mania) age
Rambles around computer science Diverting trains of thought, wasting precious time Mon, 21 Sep 2026 Peer review in the LLM (mania) age I am still dreaming that our society might wake up from the present LLM mania. To pick from today's doom-press, “Fast food for the brain” seems an appropriate metaphor. LLMs are especially corrosive to education, and therefore to our skills and abilities as a society and our survival as a species.
- ▪Rambles around computer science Diverting trains of thought, wasting precious time Mon, 21 Sep 2026 Peer review in the LLM (mania) age I am still dreaming that our society might wake up from the present LLM mania.
- ▪To pick from today's doom-press, “Fast food for the brain” seems an appropriate metaphor.
- ▪LLMs are especially corrosive to education, and therefore to our skills and abilities as a society and our survival as a species.
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| Original publisher | Humprog |
| Canonical URL | https://www.humprog.org/~stephen/blog/research/llms-review-mania.html |
| Publication time | Fri, 25 Sep 2026 02:04:10 +0000 |
| Retrieval time | 2026-09-25T02:05:27.260Z |
| Last seen | 2026-09-25T02:05:27.260Z |
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Rambles around computer science Diverting trains of thought, wasting precious time Mon, 21 Sep 2026 Peer review in the LLM (mania) age I am still dreaming that our society might wake up from the present LLM mania. Now is a difficult time. To pick from today's doom-press, “Fast food for the brain” seems an appropriate metaphor. LLMs are especially corrosive to education, and therefore to our skills and abilities as a society and our survival as a species. I am pinning hopes on hypothetical future regulation (no, I don't know either) and the mother of all stock market crashes (more likely, at least) have any hope of putting LLMs back in their box (but not bottle). Peer review processes are having an especially difficult time, owing to inundation with LLM-generated submissions.
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