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ArXiv will ban researchers who upload papers full of AI slop

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15 May
ArXiv will ban researchers who upload papers full of AI slop

ArXiv will ban researchers who upload papers full of AI slop

OPINION · WHO · The VergeOPEN STORY
15 May
ArXiv will ban researchers who upload papers full of AI slop

ArXiv, 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

REPORT · WHO · The Verge TechOPEN STORY
15 May
arXiv implements 1-year ban for papers containing incontrovertible evidence of unchecked LLM-generated errors, such as hallucinated references or results. [N]

<!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p>From Thomas G. Dietterich (arXiv moderator for cs.LG) on 𝕏 (thread):<br /> <a

OPINION · WHAT · MachineLearningOPEN STORY
14 Oct
GPT-6 Astra autonomously solves 49 out of 50 unpublished theoretical physics research problems, scoring 98% at under $3 per problem. Researchers initially marked several answers wrong, only to discover the AI had caught errors in the calculations of world-class physicists.

<table> <tr><td> <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/singularity/comments/1x5y9ue/gpt6_astra_autonomously_solves_49_out_of_50/"> <img alt="GPT-6 Astra autonomously solves 49 out of

OPINION · WHAT · singularityOPEN STORY
16 May
Backlash against Arxiv's proposed 1 year ban is genuinely perplexing. [D]

<!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p>Anyone else surprised at the enormous amount of backlash against Arxiv's proposed 1 year ban for authors and coauthors publishing papers with

OPINION · WHAT · MachineLearningOPEN STORY
24 Mar
Less Ai Slop , for sure guys.

<table> <tr><td> <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/OpenAI/comments/1s2srx0/less_ai_slop_for_sure_guys/"> <img alt="Less Ai Slop , for sure guys."

OPINION · WHAT · OpenAIOPEN STORY
8 Apr
“AI slop” was named word of the year… are people just tired of AI content now?

<!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p>I came across this recently and it got me thinking “AI slop” literally became a thing people use to describe low-effort, mass-generated content

OPINION · WHAT · ChatGPTOPEN STORY
16 May
Research repository ArXiv will ban authors for a year if they let AI do all the work

ArXiv is doing more to crack down on the careless use of large language models in scientific papers.

REPORT · WHAT · TechCrunch AIOPEN STORY
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