Oxford's Yarin Gal Proposes arXiv Ban LLM-Written Papers to Curb AI Slop
yaringal · x · 2026-09-23
Yarin Gal argues arXiv should forbid LLM-written papers outright, rejecting flagged submissions via watermarking: authors may use LLMs to improve language and reviews, but not to write the papers. Filtering writing only—not LLM-assisted experiments or proofs—would massively reduce slop by making spam far harder, with readers applying critical scrutiny to LLM-generated proofs as before.
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