What do I think about that proposed Arxiv policy to ban authors of papers with AI slop?

Tim First writes: I’m curious what your thoughts are on the new arXiv policy that authors will be banned for a year if their paper includes mistakes due to the use of AI. My (uninformed) thoughts: 1. arXiv is acting more like a publisher here. Interesting, and probably a good thing given how it’s used. 2. In an ideal world, every author on a paper would be intimately involved with the writing of the paper and be familiar with every citation. But that’s not realistic in many fields! Some papers have dozens of authors on them, and only a few of those authors are directly involved in the writing of the paper. 3. I understand that misconduct in research is an issue and that we should hold academics to high standards, but I worry this will have a chilling effect on collaboration. If someone reaches out to you to collaborate, the floor for your effort has gone way up. What are your thoughts? First off, I’ve been told that this if this policy were applied, it would only apply to the computer…