Researchers Get Good Reviews for Papers by Hiding Prompts for AI

For example, a search on the academic platform arXiv revealed 17 papers from 14 leading universities across eight countries (including Japan, South Korea, and China) that had hidden prompts instructing AI systems to give positive reviews and avoid highlighting negative aspects.

As reported by Nikkei, the papers containing such prompts were authored by researchers from Japan’s Waseda University, South Korea’s KAIST, China’s Peking University, the National University of Singapore, and the…