Post #1331567
2026-02-03 17:00 UTC
@UlrikeHahn I completely agree that we need to reflect on what role we want arxiv and other preprint servers to play in research. At the same time, I don't consider this to be a novel problem (see this from 1999; also, the DOI on this record is extremely messed up for some reason...: https://asistdl.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/(SICI)1097-4571(1999)50:10%3C890::AID-ASI6%3E3.0.CO;2-8). AI, Covid, and other crises may have made it more visible again, but I haven't really seen Arxiv take action in relation to critical research about their role in scholarly communications
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@UlrikeHahn@fediscience.org 2026-02-03 17:04
@zackbatist I agree that the pressures on academic publishing are not new, but I think the bit that’s new is the tools for the unlimited generation of scientific sounding text without the existence of corresponding tools that could keep up with the checking so whatever problems we structurally had flowing from the limited supply of expertise before, are now being made infinitely worse