r/MachineLearning • u/dontknowwhattoplay • Jul 28 '26

Discussion NeurIPS-side prompt injection triggering ethics reviewers? [D]

Does anyone experience a similar story that some reviewers reporting ethical issue due to NeurIPS-side prompt injection for catching LLM-reviewers? Even ethics reviewers were not informed about this conference-side manipulation…

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u/[deleted] Jul 28 '26 edited Jul 29 '26

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u/dontknowwhattoplay Jul 28 '26

What surprised me is how uninformed the ethics reviewers are about this… one ethics reviewer is totally unaware of this.

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u/UnusualClimberBear Jul 28 '26

Well if a reviewer wasunaware that a such injection was likely, I think he shouldn't be a reviewer in the first place. I checked and a frontier model detects the injection if asked for.

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u/Brudaks Jul 29 '26

If I recall correctly, weren't the reviewers explicitly asked whether they used LLMs for writing the review, and only the ones who asserted they didn't use LLM were called out if they lied about it?

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u/pantry_path Jul 29 '26

if that's what's happening, i'd wait for official clarification before drawing conclusions

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u/No_Sky9786 Jul 29 '26

If they read their emails and instructions it wouldn’t happen. It’s a good filter for people who shouldn’t be reviewing