With the rise of ai, ai-based papers, and ais writing terrible papers; why are you surprised or frustrated?
Wouldn’t you want some kind of barrier against slop?
No, I want arxiv to host the paper, not to review the paper.
I wouldn't want my google drive to start telling me my paper was too sloppy. I just want a link.
The growths of scientific papers published has been understood to be exponential since the early 50s.[0] So it really shouldn't be a surprise. Even without AI.
[0] https://garfield.library.upenn.edu/price/pricequantitativeme...
If you read the article, you'll find that, surprisingly, the delay I was personally observing likely has nothing to do with AI-assisted submissions.