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Biomedical papers with fabricated references blew up by more than a factor of ten from 2023 to 2026 (\(\mathbb{M}\), via). Relatedly, arXiv has added a new policy banning author of papers with hallucinated citations or other artifacts of unchecked LLM use for a year (and after that permanently requiring publication prior to allowing a preprint, kind of problematic for publication in journals whose submission process depends on having an arXiv preprint. Unfortunately I can’t find a direct reference to this in the actual posted arXiv policies and I’m not going to link to X/twitter where Tom Dietterich posted the only semi-official communication I can find on it. Fish curve drawn as an epicycle. See also “Wheels on wheels on wheels” by Frank Farris in Math. Mag. on symmetric doily patterns drawn using epicycles. I recently learned that the cubic and quartic cases of Fermat’s last theorem (the impossibility of integer solution of \(x^3+y^3=z^3\) and \(x^4+y^4=z^4\)) go back farther than…