@tdietterich: Attention @arxiv authors: Our Code of Conduct states that by signing your name as an author of a paper, each author tak…
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Tom Dietterich reminds arXiv authors that signing as an author means taking full responsibility for all contents, regardless of how they were generated, highlighting implications for AI-generated content.
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