{"id":458346,"date":"2026-05-20T12:29:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-20T12:29:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/458346\/"},"modified":"2026-05-20T12:29:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-20T12:29:08","slug":"arxiv-will-ban-researchers-for-a-year-if-generative-ai-not-kept-in-check-flowingdata","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/458346\/","title":{"rendered":"ArXiv will ban researchers for a year if generative AI not kept in check \u2013 FlowingData"},"content":{"rendered":"

Speaking of<\/a> careless AI usage, the open-access archive for research papers, ArXiv, is updating their Code of Conduct to account for generative AI. Usage is not banned, but slop is, which results in a one-year ban. Thomas Dietterich, chair of the computer science section, posted the update on X<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

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).<\/p>\n

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\u2019t trust anything in the paper. <\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

Examples of incontrovertible evidence: hallucinated references, meta-comments from the LLM (\u201chere is a 200 word summary; would you like me to make any changes?\u201d; \u201cthe data in this table is illustrative, fill it in with the real numbers from your experiments\u201d)\n<\/p>\n

It seems like it\u2019d be helpful to put this on the actual ArXiv site instead of just floating it out there on X.<\/p>\n

Still, necessary, so good on them. They\u2019ll use a detection algorithm to flag papers. It\u2019ll be interesting to see how it holds up as mistakes continue to look less like slop. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Speaking of careless AI usage, the open-access archive for research papers, ArXiv, is updating their Code of Conduct…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":458347,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[61,60,80],"class_list":["post-458346","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458346","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=458346"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458346\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/458347"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=458346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=458346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=458346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}