ArXiv will ban researchers who upload papers full of AI slop

Attention @arxiv authors: our code of conduct states that by signing your name as the author of an article, each author takes full responsibility for all of their content, regardless of how the content was generated.

If generative AI tools generate inappropriate language, plagiarized content, biased content, errors, mistakes, incorrect references or misleading content, and these results are included in scientific works, this is the responsibility of the author(s).

We recently clarified our penalties for this. If a submission contains compelling evidence that the authors have not verified the LLM generation results, it means we cannot trust anything in the article.

The sanction is a one-year ban from arXiv followed by the requirement that subsequent arXiv submissions must first be accepted at a reputable peer-reviewed venue.

Examples of compelling evidence: wild references, LLM meta-comments (“here is a 200-word summary; would you like me to make any changes?”; “the data in this table is illustrative, fill it with the actual figures from your experiments”)