Comment by squirrelon
15 hours ago
Had a colleague submit a paper with literal AI slop left in the text, got hit with a nasty revision request. Check your drafts before you submit, people. The reviewers will find it.
15 hours ago
Had a colleague submit a paper with literal AI slop left in the text, got hit with a nasty revision request. Check your drafts before you submit, people. The reviewers will find it.
Also check your LaTeX comments, Arxiv makes those publicly visible!!!
I'm a screen reader user and usually read papers as raw TeX. I've seen everything: slurs, demeaning comments towards reviewers and professors, admissions of fraud, instructions to coauthors to commit further fraud before paper submission to mask the earlier fraud... it's all there. There's far less of it than I would think, definitely <1% of papers, but it's there.
I think it would be useful to run an LLM anti-fraud pass on the TeX source of all new arxiv papers. It wouldn't catch everything, but it would catch some of the dumbest fraudsters.
On the positive side, you can also find stronger claims that didn't survive review, additional explanations that didn't make the cut due to the conference's page limit, as well as experimental results that the authors felt weren't really worth including. Those need to be approached with an abundance of caution, but are genuinely useful sometimes.
https://xcancel.com/leaksph
That's why my forarxiv make target includes a run through latexpand
Sad the suggestion here is to just disguise the slop to make it harder for reviewers to spot rather than not submitting slop to begin with.