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arXiv — cs.AI preprintsInternational9 October 2026

Writing for the Reviewer: Defensive Writing in GPT Models

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arXiv:2610.11355v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Researchers increasingly use ChatGPT to revise their papers, and recent GPT versions often narrow or even retract the authors' claims. 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. 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. Defensive writing grows wi
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