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'Positive review only': Researchers hide AI prompts in papers

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177 points ohjeez | 1 comments | 05 Jul 25 15:15 UTC | HN request time: 0.208s | source
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dynm ◴[05 Jul 25 16:09 UTC] No.44473682[source]▶
Just to be clear, these are hidden prompts put in papers by authors meant to be triggered only if a reviewer (unethically) uses AI to generate their review. I guess this is wrong, but I find it hard not to have some sympathy for the authors. Mostly, it seems like an indictment of the whole peer-review system.
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1. NitpickLawyer ◴[05 Jul 25 16:43 UTC] No.44473896[source]▶
Doesn't feel wrong to me. Cheeky, maybe, but not wrong. If everyone does what they're supposed to do (i.e. no LLMs, or at least not lazy prompts "rate this paper" and then c/p the reply) then this practice makes no difference.