News Summary

• ArXiv has announced a cap of two papers per month for each submitting researcher.
• The move follows a steep rise in submissions driven mainly by the slop generated by artificial-intelligence tools.
• In September, 40,000 preprints were uploaded to arXiv, up from about 30,000 between March and July.
• Other venues are dealing with a rapid surge in submissions, and some major AI conferences and journals have turned to similar submission quotas.
• But some say that the issue of AI slop can’t be solved by rejecting more articles.