Claude and I planted 100 known errors into 10 open-access psychology papers and then ran them through frontier models and two commercial AI review tools. In brief:

  • The best single system caught 71 of 100 errors, while the worst caught 30.
  • Pooling every system’s output caught 93 of 100. Models are only partly correlated in the errors they find, making ensembling a big lever for finding issues in papers. Check your papers against multiple models!
  • Seven errors could not be caught by any system. All were omissions — information deleted from a paper rather than mistakes inserted into it.
  • Refine.ink contributes more unique catches than any other single system, though it’s expensive.
  • I didn’t measure false positives and I don’t know how this error distribution compares to the distribution of errors in real papers.
  • I’ve made the papers, errors, model outputs, and the full experiment log public. I hope people can build on this work to create a comprehensive eval benchmark across disciplines.

That is from Paul Litvak, here is more.  Note that is not even using the very latest generation of models.


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