"80% of new arXiv math papers are slop today," researcher laments AI-generated spam
felpix_ · x · 2026-10-06
Researcher felpix observes that clicking on any paper in arXiv's math new listings now has an 80% chance of being AI-generated slop, citing a dubious "Golod–Shafarevich surfaces" preprint as an example. The post captures growing concern that LLM-generated low-quality papers are flooding preprint servers, with mathematics among the hardest-hit fields.
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