ArXiv will ban researchers who upload papers full of AI slop

Ar Xiv, a popular platform for preprint academic research, is taking a new step to attempt to reduce the volume of papers that include AI slop. If a paper has "incontrovertible evidence that the authors did not check the results of LLM generation," such as hallucinated references or "meta-comments" left by an LLM, authors will be banned from Ar Xiv for a year, according to Thomas Dietterich, Ar Xiv's section chair of its computer science section. Future Ar Xiv submissions will also have to be accepted at "a reputable peer-reviewed venue." Here's what he said on X: Attention @arxiv authors: Our Code of Conduct states that by signing your name … Read the full story at The Verge.