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 […]
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Last summer, Peter Degen’s postdoctoral supervisor came to him with an unusual problem: One of his papers was being cited too much. Citations are the currency of academia, but there was something unusual about these. Published in 2017, the paper had assessed the accuracy of a particular type of statistical analysis on epidemiological data and […]
Reducing the fee will only have a marginal impact on prices while depriving the government of revenue to maintain roads.