Writing for the Reviewer: Defensive Writing in GPT Models

Key points

• Researchers increasingly use ChatGPT to revise their papers, and recent GPT versions often narrow or even retract the authors' claims.1
• We call such changes defensive writing when the given material does not support them, and we test two explanations: the model corrects the authors' overclaiming, or it writes for an anticipated reviewer.1
• We ask GPT versions and models from other developers to rewrite paragraphs from papers written before ChatGPT, or to write from an evidence sheet that lists a paper's method and results.1
• Combining AI writing with AI review may amplify this style.1

Sources (1)

• [1]Writing for the Reviewer: Defensive Writing in GPT Models
  arXiv (AI, ML, NLP, CV, robotics, multi-agent) · Oct 8, 06:47 AM

  Defensive writing grows with GPT version.

  Researchers increasingly use ChatGPT to revise their papers, and recent GPT versions often narrow or even retract the authors' claims.

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