Stemming the AI Preprint Flood (opens in new tab)

The arXiv preprint server has become essential to several scientific fields, and has inspired similar services like BioRxiv and ChemRxiv. But the generative AI age has been hard on these sites, and you can see it by their steady imposition of new rules. Last November, arXiv announced that it was clamping down on the submission of review articles, particularly in computer science. These were becoming alarmingly easy to put together (often as not padded out with references that didn’t even quit...