arXiv lands $17.2M to become an independent nonprofit
ArXiv receives multiyear commitments to support it as an independent nonprofit
Three philanthropic organizations — Simons Foundation International, XTX Markets, and Siegel Family Endowment — have committed $17.2 million over three to five years to help arXiv launch as an independent nonprofit. The funding will strengthen arXiv's technical infrastructure, support daily operations, and improve services for millions of researchers worldwide. It will also address emerging challenges like managing AI-generated content. The commitments build on decades of philanthropic and community support for the open-access preprint server.
For decades, arXiv has been an important bedrock for open science. Now, with rapid advances in AI driving changes across academia, it is even more valuable to have robust, open-source infrastructure for science.
- edot
Tom Dietterich (Editor in Chief at arXiv) posted on LinkedIn the other day that they’re having trouble keeping up with the onslaught of AI-generated papers. Lots of suggestions in the comments but no magic bullets.
It’s ironic that the LLMs which benefit so much from reading arXiv papers of yore are now being used to pollute it. Personally if I see a single author post 2023, I assume it’s junk, especially if they’re not from an actual research institution. Not all solo independent researchers are phonies but … many phonies are solo independent researchers.
OpenReview is okay but even some of the reviewers are apparently using LLMs or just hardly reading.
- networkOne
Sorely, sorely needed.
How is science to evolve if good research requires $49 a pop to view?
And what amazes me is that these authors have undeniably stood on the shoulders of giants in order to create their research.
- upupupandaway
Asking earnestly: is ArXiv a valuable resource? I used it few years back when finishing my (late) Master's, but also saw a lot of crap published there (primarily for promotion/visa purposes) so it kind of took the shine out of the service for me.