IntraGuard: Committee-Side Defenses Against Review Outsourcing to Commercial Chatbots
LLMs become increasingly capable, editorial boards and program committees are growing concerned about reviewers who fully outsource peer review to commercial chatbots. This concern stems from prior findings that current chatbots lack the independent critical thinking and depth of reasoning required to assess scientific novelty. One promising direction for mitigating this concern is to embed hidden instructions into manuscripts that disrupt or alter chatbot-generated reviews. However, existing methods remain intuitive and fragile, as they typically rely on homogeneous payloads injected in an inter-stream manner, rendering them susceptible to sanitization or neutralization. More broadly, th...
| Authors | Oubo Ma, Ruixiao Lin, Jiahao Chen et al. |
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| Primary category | cs.CR |
| Published | 6 May 2026 |
| Last updated at source | 13 September 2026 |
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