Gaming AI-Assisted Peer Reviews Poses New Risks to the Scientific Community

In three linesResearchers demonstrate that AI systems used for scientific peer review are vulnerable to simple manipulation: superficially rephrasing a manuscript abstract improves acceptance scores by 38% without changing scientific content. The attack costs ~$1 and takes 5 minutes, affecting Gemini 3 Flash and GPT 5.4 Mini reviewers.

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