alt Hacker NewsThe "cheating" in this case is failing to accept one's responsibility to the research community.
Every researcher needs to have their work independently evaluated by peer review or some other mechanism.
So those who "cheat" on doing their part during peer review by using an AI agent devalue the community as a whole. They expect that others will properly evaluate their work, but do not return the favor.
I guess they could have meant “cheat” as in swindle or defraud.
But, I think it is worth noting that the task is to make sure the paper gets a thorough review. If somebody works out a way to do good-quality reviews with the assistance of AI based tools (without other harms, like the potential leaking that was mentioned in the other branch), that’s fine, it isn’t swindling or defrauding the community to use computer-aided writing tools. Neither if they are classical computer tools like spell checkers, nor if they are novel ones like LLMs. So, I don’t think we should put a lot of effort into catching people who make their lives easier by using spell checkers or by using LLMs.
As long as they do it correctly!