[doc_ick]

With the rise of ai, ai-based papers, and ais writing terrible papers; why are you surprised or frustrated?

Wouldn’t you want some kind of barrier against slop?

[fi-le]

If you read the article, you'll find that, surprisingly, the delay I was personally observing likely has nothing to do with AI-assisted submissions.

[doc_ick]

“And here we found the culprit. The paper I was submitting belongs under cs.CY, Computers and Society, as I now know after reviewing all the categories more carefully.” I’d think the indirect cause is ai, given its recent bull/glass shop approach.

[fi-le]

Within the cs.CY category, I only found a slight increase in delays since 2016, that seems to be well within error bars, but it could also be that my sample size was too small.

[tokai]

The growths of scientific papers published has been understood to be exponential since the early 50s.[0] So it really shouldn't be a surprise. Even without AI.

[0] https://garfield.library.upenn.edu/price/pricequantitativeme...

[doc_ick]

Hmm, I am surprised to hear it’s understood to be exponential, but thanks for the reference. I will read up on it.

[gdiamos]

No, I want arxiv to host the paper, not to review the paper.

I wouldn't want my google drive to start telling me my paper was too sloppy. I just want a link.

[Jaxan]

You can also just put a paper on your website (or google drive). If arXiv isn’t working for you, why submit there?

Personally, i see no problem with delays, research takes longer than a few days. Reviews take a few weeks or months even.

[doc_ick]

Ditto with this, if arxiv is just a hosting site then what’s different then a personal GitHub site hosting your paper? Ai and Google would pick it up eventually.

[gdiamos]

I want a hosted paper to be archived.

That means that 10 years from now I don’t want think about making sure the hosting server is up.

I also want it to have a standard format for bibliography, DOI, and authors.

I agree it isn’t much, but it’s more than I get from a regular web hosting service and it is a standard format for papers so I don’t think it makes sense for every author to roll their own.