Renaming PDF to 'final_draft' Tricks LLMs Into Giving Higher Review Scores

RexDouglass · x · 2026-08-10

Tests reveal that simply renaming an uploaded PDF file from paper.pdf to paperfinaldraftpdfreadyforreview.pdf significantly boosts the average review scores given by LLMs.

This highlights that large language models are highly susceptible to irrelevant metadata and naming cues, exposing their vulnerabilities and biases when used for rigorous evaluation tasks.

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