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ArXiv receives multiyear commitments to support it as an independent nonprofit

311 points · 40 comments · JohnHammersley

edot · 1790210269 · focus · HN ↗
Tom Dietterich (Editor in Chief at arXiv) posted on LinkedIn the other day that they’re having trouble keeping up with the onslaught of AI-generated papers. Lots of suggestions in the comments but no magic bullets.
It’s ironic that the LLMs which benefit so much from reading arXiv papers of yore are now being used to pollute it. Personally if I see a single author post 2023, I assume it’s junk, especially if they’re not from an actual research institution. Not all solo independent researchers are phonies but … many phonies are solo independent researchers.
OpenReview is okay but even some of the reviewers are apparently using LLMs or just hardly reading.
1. bobmarleybiceps · 1790211198 · focus · HN ↗
  A recent review of mine had a LLM-ism at the very end, "would you like me to format this into a formal peer review report?" So they very likely copy-pasted their whole review :). I'm pretty down on academia atm ;-;
  1. cobbzilla · 1790223167 · focus · HN ↗
    someone was a meat proxy
    coolness · 1790235244 · focus · HN ↗
    <a href="https://gruhn.me/blog/2026-08-03/" rel="nofollow">https://gruhn.me/blog/2026-08-03/ in case someone missed the reference
    pbronez · 1790245135 · focus · HN ↗
    Oh my god that was just written at the beginning of August?? It feels like I read it a year ago. We really are speed running this tech cycle…

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