this post was submitted on 15 May 2026
33 points (100.0% liked)

TechTakes

2574 readers
53 users here now

Big brain tech dude got yet another clueless take over at HackerNews etc? Here's the place to vent. Orange site, VC foolishness, all welcome.

This is not debate club. Unless it’s amusing debate.

For actually-good tech, you want our NotAwfulTech community

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
dgerard@awful.systems
33
arXiv bans academic authors for AI slop papers (pivot-to-ai.com)
submitted 3 days ago by dgerard@awful.systems to c/techtakes@awful.systems
8 comments fedilink hide all child comments
 

the hit AI dogs holler

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kJg1wHzR1gc&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA - video
https://pivottoai.libsyn.com/20260215-arxiv-bans-academic-authors-for-ai-slop-papers - podcast

time: 8 min 39 sec

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] blakestacey@awful.systems 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Corey S. Powell:

Imagine the staggering labor involved in sending around an email that says, "Nobody did anything dumb like using AI to generate the citations, right?" I mean, that could take seconds.

[–] zogwarg@awful.systems 4 points 21 hours ago

Also what is even the meaning of adding citations if you never came across the source?

[I vaguely understand that there is a lot of window-dressing that comes with writing papers, but this is too perverse.]