New arXiv policy: 1-year ban for hallucinated references
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arXiv announces a new policy imposing a 1-year ban for authors who include hallucinated references, emphasizing that authors are fully responsible for paper contents regardless of how they were generated.
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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/
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