Bob Novella

In early of this year, I believe, they made some changes.

One was that they require – if you're a first-time poster, you need to get an endorsement from an established archive author in their own field.

So Ralph Weeders described that rule the following way.

He said it's mostly to try and discourage very junior authors.

unskilled people from trying to get something started by sending some rubbish to archive.

So, yeah, these aren't, for the most part, these aren't seasoned people that have done many papers before.

They just want, trying to get their foot in the door, and they're just like, yeah, yeah, I'm just going to let AI help me out here.

At that time, earlier this year, Wieders said that the safeguard was needed, partly because LLMs are obviously just going to get better and better and better.

And eventually, as I think we would all agree, it's going to become much harder and probably even impossible for these moderators to distinguish the slop from legitimate work.

So it's going to get really hard.

And he even expressed the hope that OpenAI would help Archive detect moderators

the AI in the papers.

I don't know if they're ever going to do that, but we'll see what happens.

The other thing that they did, that Archive did earlier this year, was they detached themselves from their previous host for 20 years, I think, Cornell, right?

So Cornell was hosting their stuff.

And so now the Archive is an independent nonprofit.

And they did that for a lot of reasons.

A major reason is that when you're an independent nonprofit, that you could then

They solicit money from a wider selection of donors, and they say that a lot of that money they want or some of that money they want to use in the fight against this irresponsible AI infiltration.

So if they have more money, then they could fight against it better.