arXiv's Citation Crackdown
arXiv began enforcing a new policy this week: submit a paper with AI-hallucinated citations and you're banned from the platform for a year, after which future preprints require peer-review acceptance before posting. With fabricated citations rising tenfold since 2023 — now appearing in 1 in 277 papers — arXiv's response is to repurpose the peer-review gate that most researchers treat as optional into a punitive instrument.
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