One big advantage academic publishing has over other venues fighting AI slop is that most of the publishing incentives for academic articles only accrue if some real person is ID'd as author. Unlike spam sites, which are wholly fungible, here bad actors can actually be targeted with punishments.
The prominent academic pre-print repository arXiv has reportedly announced stiff new penalties for authors who submit papers with AI-generat...
wow — the preprint host, arxiv, is banning authors for a year if they submit papers with hallucinated citations 🤖
anil oza
I find this unsettling: A new study in #Lancet shows that the number of faux citations in scientific articles is on the rise, and #AI is likely to blame. @aniloza.bsky.social reports. www.statnews.com/2026/05/07/l...
“Fabricated” citations that do not reference real academic papers are spreading in the literature, polluting the public record of science, a new study found
