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Bob Novella

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The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe
The Skeptics Guide #1089 - May 23 2026

Wait, Bob, I thought you were the safest driver.

The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe
The Skeptics Guide #1089 - May 23 2026

Oh, wait, did I say that?

The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe
The Skeptics Guide #1089 - May 23 2026

It exposes them to less risk because if they say, oh, man, this guy is really a horrible driver.

The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe
The Skeptics Guide #1089 - May 23 2026

We're going to raise his rates because we wouldn't have known it otherwise.

The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe
The Skeptics Guide #1089 - May 23 2026

But he's terrible risk.

The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe
The Skeptics Guide #1089 - May 23 2026

So that's the thing.

The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe
The Skeptics Guide #1089 - May 23 2026

I love when you download a game and it gives you the option to get notifications or to track your data and it says, ask the app not to do it.

The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe
The Skeptics Guide #1089 - May 23 2026

It's not saying it won't do it.

The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe
The Skeptics Guide #1089 - May 23 2026

It's like, I'm going to ask the app not to do it.

The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe
The Skeptics Guide #1089 - May 23 2026

Why do they word it that way?

The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe
The Skeptics Guide #1089 - May 23 2026

I hate that too.

The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe
The Skeptics Guide #1089 - May 23 2026

Right?

The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe
The Skeptics Guide #1089 - May 23 2026

Yes.

The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe
The Skeptics Guide #1089 - May 23 2026

So this is the popular Archive preprint server that we've mentioned on the show many times has started taking AI's slop in its papers seriously this year.

The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe
The Skeptics Guide #1089 - May 23 2026

And most recently, just last week, they announced that they will ban researchers for a year if their submission contains evidence of irresponsible archiving.

The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe
The Skeptics Guide #1089 - May 23 2026

large language model use.

The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe
The Skeptics Guide #1089 - May 23 2026

So I'm curious to hear everyone's thoughts on this.

The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe
The Skeptics Guide #1089 - May 23 2026

So let me jump into these details.

The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe
The Skeptics Guide #1089 - May 23 2026

So the ARXIV, A-R-X-I-V, it's a physical sciences repository, right?

The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe
The Skeptics Guide #1089 - May 23 2026

The papers cover eight different subject areas, and primarily there's computing science, physics, and math.