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New arXiv policy: 1-year ban for hallucinated references

https://twitter.com/tdietterich/status/2055000956144935055
100•gjuggler•1h ago

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imenani•1h ago
https://xcancel.com/tdietterich/status/2055000956144935055
JumpCrisscross•18m ago
> Our Code of Conduct states that by signing your name as an author of a paper, each author takes full responsibility for all its contents, irrespective of how the contents were generated (Dieterrich, T. G.)
bigfishrunning•1h ago
Good; academic literature is in crisis because of all of the slop. Forcing some consequences on easily-detectable hallucinations can only be a good thing
tengwar2•35m ago
It's not just AI, though. I did a doctorate in physics about 40 years back, and bad references were a problem back then.
btown•1h ago
> The penalty is a 1-year ban from arXiv followed by the requirement that subsequent arXiv submissions must first be accepted at a reputable peer-reviewed venue.

This is incredibly good for science. arXiv is free, but it's a privilege not a right!

I'm not seeing this clearly listed on https://info.arxiv.org/help/policies/index.html so it's possible this is planned but not live yet - or perhaps I'm not digging deeply enough?

As a certain doctor once said: the whole point of the doomsday machine is lost if you keep it a secret!

random3•45m ago
It seems a good idea to ban cheating, but how hard is it, especially in new reasoning/agents contexts to validate references?

The deeper question is whether legitimate AI generated results are allowed or not? Test - In the extreme - think proof of Riemann Hypothesis autonomously generated (end to end) formally proven - is it allowed or not?

Ifkaluva•28m ago
This is not about banning cheating, it’s about banning inaccurate information.
Retric•27m ago
You don’t need to solve everything, catching a few thousand non existent citations with such a policy is on its own a net benefit.
pointlessone•23m ago
It is allowed as long as it’s verified.

The thread specifically points out that if authors can’t be arsed to simply proofread their text the rest can not be trusted either.

It’s a simple heuristic against low quality submissions, not an anti-ai measure.

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