blakestacey comments on arXiv bans academic authors for AI slop papers

arXiv bans academic authors for AI slop papers (pivot-to-ai.com)

submitted 4 months ago by dgerard@awful.systems [M] to c/techtakes@awful.systems

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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

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[–] blakestacey@awful.systems 4 points 4 months ago (2 children)

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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[–] zogwarg@awful.systems 5 points 4 months ago (1 child)

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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[–] dgerard@awful.systems [S] 3 points 4 months ago

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

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