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Lenka Zdeborova, EPFL professor of physics and computer science, describes how an inattentive co-author's late copy-paste edit could let LLM-generated text slip into arXiv papers unnoticed

Lucas Beyer notes arXiv allows LLM final checks before upload

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OPLenka Zdeborova#1201Lenka Zdeborova@ZDEBOROVA

@giffmana I can well imagine that a silly LLM comment can sneak in e.g. at late stages of writing when an inattentive co-author wants to polish some text and makes a copy paste mistake in an appendix that co-authors already approved before those last edits.

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REPLYLucas Beyer (bl16)#55Lucas Beyer (bl16)@GIFFMANA

@zdeborova arxiv has no deadlines, doing one final review skim before upload is really a non-issue. You can even ask an llm to do that review lol

Lenka ZdeborovaLenka Zdeborova@zdeborova

@giffmana I can well imagine that a silly LLM comment can sneak in e.g. at late stages of writing when an inattentive co-author wants to polish some text and makes a copy paste mistake in an appendix that co-authors already approved before those last edits.

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