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Arxiv bans slop
(hexbear.net)
transcript
Screenshot from Thomas Dietterich on X:
"Attention @arxiv authors: 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."
With a reply from James Miller: "So this means you expect every author to check every citation and make sure that every citation is real and accurate? What if it's beyond the ability of one of the authors to verify one of the citations because that citation is in a language he doesn't know or concerns technical material he doesn't understand but another author on the paper does?"
I'm a strong advocate for trusting your colleagues (and verifying). No disagreement here.
You should know, however, that free translation tools are AI. It's emphatically exactly the same technology that gave us slop cannons in the first place. The birth of the transformer architecture came from trying to do improvements in machine translation.
That might be too tangential or pedantic, given I think we share the sentiment about this dude, but it feels worth mentioning.