{"id":19441,"date":"2025-07-14T08:37:27","date_gmt":"2025-07-14T06:37:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/07\/14\/scientists-reportedly-hiding-ai-text-prompts-in-academic-papers-to-receive-positive-peer-reviews\/"},"modified":"2025-07-14T08:37:27","modified_gmt":"2025-07-14T06:37:27","slug":"scientists-reportedly-hiding-ai-text-prompts-in-academic-papers-to-receive-positive-peer-reviews","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/07\/14\/scientists-reportedly-hiding-ai-text-prompts-in-academic-papers-to-receive-positive-peer-reviews\/","title":{"rendered":"Scientists reportedly hiding AI text prompts in academic papers to receive positive peer reviews"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Research papers found carrying hidden white text giving instructions not to highlight negatives as concern grows over use of large language models for peer review<\/p>\n<p>Academics are reportedly hiding prompts in preprint papers for artificial intelligence tools, encouraging them to give positive reviews.<\/p>\n<p>Nikkei <a href=\"https:\/\/asia.nikkei.com\/Business\/Technology\/Artificial-intelligence\/Positive-review-only-Researchers-hide-AI-prompts-in-papers\">reported on 1 July<\/a> it had reviewed research papers from 14 academic institutions in eight countries, including Japan, South Korea, China, Singapore and two in the United States.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2025\/jul\/14\/scientists-reportedly-hiding-ai-text-prompts-in-academic-papers-to-receive-positive-peer-reviews\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/50492d2a3e5f70df2365ae169a502657c92c404e\/2269_422_5987_4789\/master\/5987.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=8ed1996e6ba047582b86da9bfd0b49d1\" title=\"Scientists reportedly hiding AI text prompts in academic papers to receive positive peer reviews\" \/>Research papers found carrying hidden white text giving instructions not to highlight negatives as concern grows over use of large language models for peer review<br \/>\nAcademics are reportedly hiding prompts in preprint papers for artificial intelligence tools, encouraging them to give positive reviews.<br \/>\nNikkei reported on 1 July it had reviewed research papers from 14 academic institutions in eight countries, including Japan, South Korea, China, Singapore and two in the United States. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Research papers found carrying hidden white text giving instructions not to highlight negatives as concern grows over use of large language models for peer review Academics are reportedly hiding prompts in preprint papers for artificial intelligence tools, encouraging them to give positive reviews. Nikkei reported on 1 July it had reviewed research papers from 14 &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/07\/14\/scientists-reportedly-hiding-ai-text-prompts-in-academic-papers-to-receive-positive-peer-reviews\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Scientists reportedly hiding AI text prompts in academic papers to receive positive peer reviews<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":19442,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19441"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19441"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19441\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19442"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}