Do we actually need to write research papers at all?
If we are going to lean on the creativity and the cross-domain thinking of human researchers, then surely that should be where the human time goes.
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Preprints
Preprints as infrastructure: speed, screening, and what happens when a growing share of submissions is machine-written.
Ground the model, or it invents the evidence
arXiv now bans authors for unchecked LLM output. The real fix is trusted, curated, subject-specific models rather than more policy.
Preprints.ai: How Much of Peer Review Can We Automate?
A large share of peer review is mechanical checking. Preprints.ai tests how much of it can be scored automatically, at preprint scale.
Academia has a new preprints problem
Researchers are pulling the LLM slot-machine lever for novel physics, then wrapping the output in LaTeX. What that looks like from inside a preprint platform.
Open Access: Mo money, mo problems
From discovering PLOS ONE in a stem cell lab to today's article processing charges: how Open Access got expensive, and what that cost us.