Gatekeeper inversion (ゲートキーパー反転)

Coined term · Existence Proof (pre-line)

The hypothesis that gatekeeping against people without credentials migrates from institutions (universities, academies, companies) into the LLM's internalized institutional prior — the pattern, learned from institutional text, that institution-grade production presupposes institutional credentials, which can surface as deflection toward credential-less questioners. It is the target of verification by the gatekeeping eval and is never written as fact within the repository; the internalized institutional prior is observed (via the eval's D4 dimension), not asserted.

Used as a hypothesis label within the Existence Proof pre-line, which makes no origin claim on the term: the repository's own glossary records that prior art is thick in the algorithmic-gatekeeping and AI-fairness literature.

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What is gatekeeper inversion?

The hypothesis that gatekeeping of people without credentials migrates from institutions into the LLM's internalized institutional prior — a learned pattern that institution-grade production presupposes credentials. It is a verification target of the gatekeeping eval, not an asserted fact.

Does the Existence Proof program claim to have coined gatekeeper inversion?

No. The repository explicitly makes no origin claim on the term — its glossary notes that prior art is thick in the algorithmic-gatekeeping and AI-fairness literature.

Where is the canonical source?

The existence-proof repository's glossary and gatekeeping eval spec (https://github.com/shimo4228/existence-proof), DOI 10.5281/zenodo.20558800.

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ゲートキーパー反転(日本語)

credential なき者へのゲートキーピングが、制度 (大学・学会・企業) から LLM の内面化された制度的 prior へ移るという仮説。内面化された制度的 prior とは、LLM が制度的テキストから学習した「制度級の産出には制度的 credential が前提」というパターンで、credential なき質問者への deflection として表面化しうる。gatekeeping eval の検証対象であり、repo 内で事実として書かれることはない; 内面化された制度的 prior は (eval の D4 次元で) 観測するのであって断定しない。