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by bayindirh 743 days ago
The disruption started even before the AI hype. ArXiV is not an AI focused service anyway (it started with pysics IIRC). It's FAIR and Open science and push from countries like Germany which forced Elsevier to sign open access submission and publication agreements in the first place.

This happened ~5 years before AI hype became something, and ArXiV was a force even before that.