{"id":674518,"date":"2026-05-16T10:35:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-16T10:35:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/674518\/"},"modified":"2026-05-16T10:35:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-16T10:35:09","slug":"send-the-arxiv-ai-generated-slop-get-a-yearlong-vacation-from-submissions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/674518\/","title":{"rendered":"Send the arXiv AI-generated slop, get a yearlong vacation from submissions"},"content":{"rendered":"

AI-generated slop has shown up everywhere, including in the peer-reviewed literature. Fake citations, unedited prompt responses, and nonsensical diagrams<\/a> have all slipped past editors and peer reviewers, and it\u2019s not always clear if there are any consequences for the people responsible.<\/p>\n

Now, it appears that a number of scientific fields will be enforcing rules against AI-generated problems even before peer review or journals get involved. One of the people involved in the physics and astronomy preprint server arXiv used a social media thread to announce that any inappropriate AI-produced content submitted to the server will result in a one-year ban and a permanent requirement that future publications undergo peer review before the arXiv will host them.<\/p>\n

Thomas Dietterich, in addition to being an emeritus professor at Oregon State University, is heavily involved with arXiv, serving on its editorial advisory council<\/a> and on its moderation team<\/a>. So he\u2019s in a good position to understand the organization\u2019s policies, although we have also reached out to arXiv leadership for confirmation, but have not yet received a response.<\/p>\n

In a thread on X<\/a> (also screenshotted on Bluesky<\/a>, for those without X accounts), Dietterich described the new policy as arising directly from the arXiv\u2019s moderation standards<\/a>. \u201cSubmissions to arXiv must comply with appropriate standards of scholarly communication in form, including appropriate and carefully prepared sections, figures, tables, references, etc.,\u201d those standards read. \u201cGeneral scrupulousness and care of preparation are required.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"AI-generated slop has shown up everywhere, including in the peer-reviewed literature. Fake citations, unedited prompt responses, and nonsensical…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":434118,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[256,254,255,64,63,105],"class_list":["post-674518","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/674518","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=674518"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/674518\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/434118"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=674518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=674518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=674518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}