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arXiv announces ban for hallucinated references
4gravitons.comu/kzhou7 — 12 hours ago

You can see the data for yourself on this slide, which is from this talk. The trend is flat through the early 2020s, then has a rapid rise in 2025 and 2026. The slides don't specify the category, but the rate in that category has gone from ~500/month to ~1200/month. This aligns perfectly with my experience reading papers in my subfield on arXiv.