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arXiv bans academic authors for AI slop papers (pivot-to-ai.com)
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[–] aio@awful.systems 4 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

It's not quite clear to me that

We rely on some standard LLM detectors to focus our attention on papers that need to be checked.

implies they are using LLMs themselves. The phrase "LLM detector" is a bit ambiguous and could mean "LLM being used as a detector" or just "classifier program designed to detect LLM output".

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I don't know of any examples that aren't LLMs themselves.

[–] aio@awful.systems 6 points 2 days ago

Ah okay, I didn't realize that.