Science or Slop?: Benchmarking and Mitigating Scientific Slop in AI-Generated Papers

arXiv cs.AIOctober 2, 2026en

arXiv cs.AI

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arXiv:2610.00531v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: AI-generated content, often called AI slop, is increasingly common everywhere, particularly in academia. Slop in AI-generated scientific papers, however, has more complex patterns that cannot be easily detected by existing token-based AI detectors. Each part of such a paper looks plausible while the scientific reasoning that connects the parts breaks down, which can mislead how readers assess the work. We benchmark these failures as scientific slop through six measures across Structure, Argument, and Artifacts. We construct SciSlopBench with 390 AI-generated papers, mostly in computer science but spanning the life, social, and natural sciences,

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