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https://irisvanrooijcogsci.com/2026/04/08/refusal-to-review/

Refusal to Review

I wrote the below email, when invited to review a paper that was partially processed by ChatGPT. As I imagine the email could be useful inspiration for others, I decided to make it available. Feel …

Iris van Rooij

@Iris
Thanks for showing and sharing this.

My simple stance: if people primarily use AI/LLMs to create something and then ask me to review it, they could have asked AI to do the review themselves.

@Iris the psyarxiv link gives a "doi not found" https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/dkrgj I thought you might want to know.
@Iris you're quite kind. Is have no qualms about accepting the reviewership and then recommending rejection based on the AI use.