Confident Science Papers Sway AI Judges – Regardless of Merit
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A new study from Germany finds that six AI reviewers, including GPT-5.5 and Claude Sonnet 4.6, score scientific papers higher when they are written in confident language, even when the research is identical to a more cautious version.