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Re:New arXiv policy: 1-year ban for hallucinated references by kevincox on Friday May 15, 2026 @07:51AM (#48147458)
That sounds like way less of a problem than science. If you take bad sources you hurt yourself financially. For science (especially anything medicine related) you can hurt many others physically.
Re:New arXiv policy: 1-year ban for hallucinated references by clearstack on Friday May 15, 2026 @10:49AM (#48149396)
fair at the individual level. but now these tools are used in quant models and at retail scale — one systematically hallucinated metric can affect a lot of real portfolios