[thomascountz]

The HN submission title is incorrect.

> Before being considered for submission to arXiv’s CS category, review articles and position papers must now be accepted at a journal or a conference and complete successful peer review.

Edit: original title was "arXiv No Longer Accepts Computer Science Position or Review Papers Due to LLMs"

[dimava]

refined title:

ArXiv CS requires peer review for surveys amid flood of AI-written ones

- nothing happened to preprints

- "summarization" articles always required it, they are just pointing at it out loud

[stefan_]

Isn't arXiv where you upload things before they have gone through the entire process? Isn't that the entire value, aside from some publisher cartel busting?

[jvanderbot]

Almost all CS papers can still be uploaded, and all non-CS papers. This is a very conservative step by them.

[catlifeonmars]

Agree. Additionally, original title, "arXiv No Longer Accepts Computer Science Position or Review Papers Due to LLMs" is ambiguous. “Due to LLMs” is being interpreted as articles written by LLMs, which is not accurate.

[zerocrates]

No, the post is definitely complaining about articles written by LLMs:

"In the past few years, arXiv has been flooded with papers. Generative AI / large language models have added to this flood by making papers – especially papers not introducing new research results – fast and easy to write."

"Fast forward to present day – submissions to arXiv in general have risen dramatically, and we now receive hundreds of review articles every month. The advent of large language models have made this type of content relatively easy to churn out on demand, and the majority of the review articles we receive are little more than annotated bibliographies, with no substantial discussion of open research issues."

Surely a lot of them are also about LLMs: LLMs are the hot computing topic and where all the money and attention is, and they're also used heavily in the field. So that could at least partially account for why this policy is for CS papers only, but the announcement's rationale is about LLMs as producing the papers, not as their subject.

[dang]

We've reverted it now.

[ivape]

I don’t know about this. From a pure entertainment standpoint, we may be denying ourselves a world of hilarity. LLMs + “You know Peter, I’m something of a research myself” delusions. I’d pay for this so long as people are very serious about the delusion.

[aoki]

That’s viXra