My article, "LLM Usage and Manipulation in Peer Review," has been published on the APA's Ethical Dilemmas in Public Philosophy blog.

It looks at a growing practice in LLM use: hidden prompts.

Here's the closing paragraph:

> LLMs have already created a low-trust environment, especially (but not only) online. You can never be sure if you are reading a human or a bot, as in the case of peer reviews. Yet, with “traditional” prompting, you can at least assume that the LLM is following the instructions of the human author. Hidden prompts inject—quite literally—another layer of mistrust into the system: now, you don’t even know whose instructions the model followed.

Link below.

blog.apaonline.org/2025/11/13/llm-usage-and-manipulation-in-peer-review/