Post #570827

2026-02-03 10:17 UTC

I recently posted a pre-print about reasoning and large-language models.... trying to get that piece on a pre-print server itself was a bit of a journey which illustrates concerns I&#39;ve had for the last 18 months or so: namely that AI will kill publishing reform. here a blog post about it: #academic #openScience https://write.as/ulrikehahn/is-ai-killing-scientific-reform

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@brembs@mastodon.social 2026-02-03 15:41

@UlrikeHahn So totally agree! The fact that arxiv actually feels like they need to review preprints, in a very ironic way means we need a pre-preprint server? 🤣 And as if to add insult to injury, our publication system was already FUBAR before LLMs were a thing, but people kept pretending the problem will go away by itself if they just manage to keep ignoring it for long enough. That ostrich attitude is so going to blow up in everybody's faces now.

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@zackbatist@archaeo.social 2026-02-03 17:00

@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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