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Reality check: yesnoerror, the only part of the article that actually seems to involve any published AI reviewer comments, is just checking arxiv papers. Their website claims that they "uncover errors, inconsistencies, and flawed methods that human reviewers missed." but arxiv is of course famously NOT a peer-reviewed journal. At best they are finding "errors, inconsistencies, and flawed methods" in papers that human reviewers haven't looked at.

Let's then try and see if we can uncover any "errors, inconsistencies, and flawed methods" on their website. The "status" is pure madeup garbage. There's no network traffic related to it that would actually allow it to show a real status. The "RECENT ERROR DETECTIONS" lists a single paper from today, but looking at the queue when you click "submit a paper" lists the last completed paper as the 21st of February. The front page tells us that it found some math issue in a paper titled "Waste tea as absorbent for removal of heavy metal present in contaminated water" but if we navigate to that paper[1] the math error suddenly disappears. Most of the comments are also worthless, talking about minor typographical issues or misspellings that do not matter, but of course they still categorize that as an "error".

It's the same garbage as every time with crypto people.

[1]: https://yesnoerror.com/doc/82cd4ea5-4e33-48e1-b517-5ea3e2c5f...



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