{"id":248753,"date":"2026-05-18T16:08:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-18T20:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/18\/a-key-science-publishing-platform-is-cracking-down-on-ai-slop\/"},"modified":"2026-05-18T16:25:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-18T20:25:10","slug":"a-key-science-publishing-platform-is-cracking-down-on-ai-slop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/18\/a-key-science-publishing-platform-is-cracking-down-on-ai-slop\/","title":{"rendered":"A key science publishing platform is cracking down on AI slop"},"content":{"rendered":"

A key science publishing platform is cracking down on AI slop<\/a><\/p>\n

https:\/\/theconversation.com\/a-key-science-publishing-platform-is-cracking-down-on-ai-slop-283136<\/a><\/p>\n

Publish Date: 2026-05-18 16:08:00<\/a><\/p>\n

Source Domain: theconversation.com<\/a><\/p>\n

The pre-print website arXiv has announced that researchers who put their names to papers which included errors clearly generated by artificial intelligence (AI) will face a year-long ban and ongoing restrictions.<\/p>\n

The move is a response to a growing influx of AI-generated papers faced by scholarly journals as well as sites such as arXiv, which serve as unofficial platforms for research publication ahead of peer review.<\/p>\n

However, not everyone agrees that arXiv\u2019s response to the problem is appropriate \u2013 and the solution to the flood of AI slop research may involve more AI, not less.<\/p>\n

The rise of bot-assisted writing<\/h2>\n

AI-generated text is on the rise everywhere. A study released last week suggests half of new articles published online are now \u201cprimarily AI-generated\u201d.<\/p>\n

Science is not immune to this trend. Last month, the journal Organization Science published a study of how the rise of AI has affected submissions and peer reviews since the release of ChatGPT in 2022. Reporting a dramatic rise in submitted papers and a drop in quality, the authors conclude that \u201cthe current state of AI tools, amplified by existing publish-or-perish incentives, appears to be pushing the system toward an equilibrium of more rather than better research\u201d.<\/p>\n

A common problem in AI-generated research writing is hallucinated citations: references to other research that does not exist.<\/p>\n

The traditional safeguard against poor quality in scholarly publishing is peer review: another expert in the subject at hand reads the research paper and interrogates the work behind it before it can be published. <\/p>\n

However, the peer review system was already struggling before AI. Pressured researchers often have little time or incentive to do the unpaid work of peer review.<\/p>\n

And on arXiv, which publishes preprints \u2013 articles which have most often not been peer-reviewed \u2013 even this system is not available. Last year, flooded with AI-generated submissions, the site stopped accepting…<\/p>\n

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