Researchers who use hallucinated references to face ArXiv ban

(nature.com)

19 points | by gnabgib 11 hours ago ago

5 comments

  • SOLAR_FIELDS 7 hours ago ago

    > But not everyone is convinced that such measures are the right approach. Natalie Khalil, the founder of Reviewer 3, a platform run from in San Francisco, California, that uses AI to help researchers to conduct peer review, argues that arXiv is treating the symptom, not the root cause. “If a researcher is banned from arXiv, they will still do research, just elsewhere,” she notes.

    Notably, the commenter offers up no viable alternative solution

    • nathanmills 4 hours ago ago

      I suppose the root cause would be using/allowing AI for papers, since they hallucinate more than just references.

  • OsrsNeedsf2P 10 hours ago ago

    Sounds reasonable to me. They're also cracking down on other types of hallucinations in articles.

  • wavemode 9 hours ago ago
  • aaron695 6 hours ago ago

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