Samantha Cole, writing for 404 Media:
Late Thursday evening, Thomas Dietterich, chair of the computer
science section of ArXiv, wrote on X: “If generative AI
tools generate inappropriate language, plagiarized content,
biased content, errors, mistakes, incorrect references, or
misleading content, and that output is included in scientific
works, it is the responsibility of the author(s). We have
recently clarified our penalties for this. If a submission
contains incontrovertible evidence that the authors did not check
the results of LLM generation, this means we can’t trust anything
in the paper.” […]“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,” Dietterich wrote.
Dietterich told me in an email on Friday morning that this is a
one-strike rule — meaning authors caught just once including AI
slop in submissions will be banned — but that decisions will be
open to appeal.
I see no cognitive dissonance in being pro-AI, in general, but vehemently anti-slop.
