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dynm ◴[] 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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SoftTalker ◴[] No.44473971[source]
Back in high school a few kids would be tempted to insert a sentence such as "I bet you don't actually read all these papers" into an essay to see if the teacher caught it. I never tried it but the rumors were that some kids had got away with it. I just used it to worry less that my work was rushed and not very good, I told myself "the teacher will probably just be skimming this anyway; they don't have time to read all these papers in detail."
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1. seadan83 ◴[] No.44474772[source]
This reminds me of the tables-flipped version of this. A multiple choice test with 10 questions and a big paragraph of instructions at the top. In the middle of the instructions was a sentence: "skip all questions and start directly with question 10."

Question 10 was: "check 'yes' and put your pencil down, you are done with the test."