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David Gerard ( dgerard@awful.systems ) M to TechTakes@awful.systemsEnglish · 5 months ago

arXiv bans academic authors for AI slop papers

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arXiv bans academic authors for AI slop papers

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David Gerard ( dgerard@awful.systems ) M to TechTakes@awful.systemsEnglish · 5 months ago
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arXiv is a preprint server. It’s a place for academics to post papers before they reach the peer-reviewed journals — if ever. It’s where you get news out quickly. Science runs on the arXiv. Any pap…

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kJg1wHzR1gc&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA - video
https://pivottoai.libsyn.com/20260215-arxiv-bans-academic-authors-for-ai-slop-papers - podcast

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  • scruiser ( scruiser@awful.systems ) 
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    Every author named as writing a paper bears full responsibility for the paper.

    This has the nice added bonus that it will likely catch PI’s that put their name on their grad students paper without actually doing the mentoring they were supposed to. It will also catch professors that coast (or at least inflate their citation index) by getting their name on papers they barely contributed to.

    I am quite convinced that, under these arxive guidelines, every single major PI in the field will be banned within a few years.

    Catching a lot of PIs that have allowed and even encouraged slop submission is a good thing in my book.

  • antifuchs ( antifuchs@awful.systems ) 
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    Publish and perish!

  • sc_griffith ( sc_griffith@awful.systems ) 
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    fun fact: even vixra has had an anti ai paper policy for idk how long, at least ten months

    https://bsky.app/profile/scgriffith.bsky.social/post/3lsek4cpnpk2n

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    It’s not quite clear to me that

    We rely on some standard LLM detectors to focus our attention on papers that need to be checked.

    implies they are using LLMs themselves. The phrase “LLM detector” is a bit ambiguous and could mean “LLM being used as a detector” or just “classifier program designed to detect LLM output”.

    • David Gerard ( dgerard@awful.systems ) OP
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      I don’t know of any examples that aren’t LLMs themselves.

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        Ah okay, I didn’t realize that.

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    Corey S. Powell:

    Imagine the staggering labor involved in sending around an email that says, “Nobody did anything dumb like using AI to generate the citations, right?” I mean, that could take seconds.

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      Also what is even the meaning of adding citations if you never came across the source?

      [I vaguely understand that there is a lot of window-dressing that comes with writing papers, but this is too perverse.]

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        people get told they have too few cites and need to add more. the result:

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