[ExI] Arxiv and AI slop

[BillK]

On Fri, 10 Apr 2026 at 05:27, Jason Resch via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
> In my recent experience posting to arxiv.org is not what it used to be.
It is now heavily moderated and restricted. One paper I submitted sat in an
on hold status for over a month before it was rejected without any
feedback, and without any ability to appeal or resubmit.
>
> I have since found a truly open eprint archive which hosts up to 50 GB of
papers, assigns DOI numbers, and publishes immediately:
> zenodo.org
> It is run by CERN. I submitted three papers there recently and it is what
arxiv used to be: a place to post papers without gatekeeping.
>
> Jason
> _______________________________________________


Arxiv has been flooded with AI-generated (slop) papers. Controlling this
has forced them into more strict moderation.
Zenodo and other preprint servers are facing the same problem.
BillK

See: <
https://www.science.org/content/article/arxiv-preprint-server-clamps-down-ai-slop
>
and <
https://sciencesprings.wordpress.com/2026/02/16/from-nature-how-ai-slop-is-causing-a-crisis-in-computer-science/
>
Quote:

One response is to fight fire with fire
<https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-02469-y> by using AI in peer
review or to weed out fake papers. Other options are blunter. The arXiv
has, for example, added eligibility checks for first-time submitters and banned
computer-science review articles
<https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-03664-7> that have not been
previously accepted by a peer-reviewed outlet. The organizers of the
International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence (“IJCAI”),
meanwhile, have sought to limit submissions by introducing a policy that
requires researchers to pay US$100 for every subsequent paper after their
first. These payments then get distributed between reviewers.

The stakes are high, says Lee. If the issue is not addressed, “trust in
scientific research, particularly within computer science, faces a
substantial risk of erosion”, he says.
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