At the very least, authors who have been caught publishing proven fabrications should be barred by those journals from ever publishing in them again. Mind you, this is regardless of whether or not an LLM was involved.

I’m not advocating, I’m making a high-level observation: Industry forever pushes for nil regulation and blames bad actors for damaging use.

But we always have some regulation in the end. Even if certain firearms are legal to own, howitzers are not — although it still takes a “bad actor” to rain down death on City Hall.

The same dynamic is at play with LLMs: “Don’t regulate us, punish bad actors! If you still have a problem, punish them harder!” Well yes, we will punish bad actors, but we will also go through a negotiation of how heavily to constrain the use of your technology.