Researchers warn AI-written 'salami' papers are flooding arXiv with low-value work
EhudReiter · x · 2026-10-02
NLP researcher Ehud Reiter endorses Tom Dietterich's critique of the current publishing ecosystem: a marked rise in thin papers of narrow scope and 'salami' papers that split one work into several submissions, plus a wave of dense, AI-written papers as authors use AI tools to flood arXiv with low-value output, making real research harder to find.
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