ArXiv will ban researchers who upload papers full of AI slop
The Verge AI·May 15, 2026 at 8:38 PM·
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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 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 […]