<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">On Fri, 10 Apr 2026 at 05:27, Jason Resch via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org" target="_blank">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br>> In my recent experience posting to <a href="http://arxiv.org" target="_blank">arxiv.org</a> is not what it used to be. It is now heavily moderated and restricted. One paper I submitted sat in an on hold status for over a month before it was rejected without any feedback, and without any ability to appeal or resubmit.<br>><br>> I have since found a truly open eprint archive which hosts up to 50 GB of papers, assigns DOI numbers, and publishes immediately:<br>> <a href="http://zenodo.org" target="_blank">zenodo.org</a><br>> It is run by CERN. I submitted three papers there recently and it is what arxiv used to be: a place to post papers without gatekeeping.<br>><br>> Jason<br>> _______________________________________________<br><br><br>Arxiv has been flooded with AI-generated (slop) papers. Controlling this has forced them into more strict moderation.<br><div>Zenodo and other preprint servers are facing the same problem.</div><div>BillK</div><br>See: <<a href="https://www.science.org/content/article/arxiv-preprint-server-clamps-down-ai-slop" target="_blank">https://www.science.org/content/article/arxiv-preprint-server-clamps-down-ai-slop</a>><br><div>and <<a href="https://sciencesprings.wordpress.com/2026/02/16/from-nature-how-ai-slop-is-causing-a-crisis-in-computer-science/" target="_blank">https://sciencesprings.wordpress.com/2026/02/16/from-nature-how-ai-slop-is-causing-a-crisis-in-computer-science/</a>></div><div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)" class="gmail_default">Quote:</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)" class="gmail_default"><p>One response is to <a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-02469-y" target="_blank">fight fire with fire</a>
by using AI in peer review or to weed out fake papers. Other options
are blunter. The arXiv has, for example, added eligibility checks for
first-time submitters and <a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-03664-7" target="_blank">banned computer-science review articles</a>
that have not been previously accepted by a peer-reviewed outlet. The
organizers of the International Joint Conferences on Artificial
Intelligence (“IJCAI”), meanwhile, have sought to limit submissions by
introducing a policy that requires researchers to pay US$100 for every
subsequent paper after their first. These payments then get distributed
between reviewers.</p><p>The stakes are high, says Lee. If the issue is not addressed, “trust
in scientific research, particularly within computer science, faces a
substantial risk of erosion”, he says.</p>----------------------------------------------</div><br></div><div><br></div></div>
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