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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…

the hit AI dogs holler

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

time: 8 min 39 sec

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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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