Researchers still avoid using AI for publishing, while others use it for reference sourcing, editing, and citation formatting. AI use creates verification pressure because hallucinations can contaminate claims and data. Some academics want to use AI to write original research while staying protected from hallucinated outputs. arXiv announced a policy banning authors for up to a year if hallucinated references are found. The policy emphasizes that authors are responsible for all contents regardless of how they were generated. Critics question whether authors can realistically verify every citation and ensure all references are real and accurate.
"Attention @arxiv authors: Our Code of Conduct states that by signing your name as an author of a paper, each author takes full responsibility for all its contents, irrespective of how the contents were generated. 1/- Thomas G. Dietterich (@tdietterich) May 14, 2026"
"So this means you expect every author to check every citation and make sure that every citation is real and accurate? What if it's beyond the ability of one of the authors to verify one of the c"
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