Researchers decry arXiv bans over AI-hallucinated citations

Researchers criticize arXiv for potentially lifetime-banning authors whose papers contain AI-hallucinated citations. One scholar notes hallucinated references are a serious problem largely ignored by academia, with arXiv the only known platform enforcing bans.

2026-09-14 ~ 2026-09-14 · 2 related posts

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