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MIT asks arXiv to withdraw preprint of paper on AI and scientific discovery

(economics.mit.edu)
284 points carabiner | 3 comments | 16 May 25 15:09 UTC | HN request time: 0.614s | source
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gowld ◴[16 May 25 17:18 UTC] No.44007820[source]▶
Bad OP Title

Better title:

MIT disavows heavily-discussed economics preprint paper about Artificial Intelligence and Scientific Discovery.

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dang ◴[16 May 25 18:14 UTC] No.44008337[source]▶
I've attempted to put a neutral title at the top of this page. If someone can come up with a better (i.e. more accurate and neutral) one, we can change it again.

(Since press release titles about negative news tend to studiously avoid saying anything, we tend to classify them in the "misleading" bucket of https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html, which justifies rewriting them.)

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1. forgotpwd16 ◴[16 May 25 22:33 UTC] No.44010365[source]▶
Perhaps replace "take down" with "withdraw" (arXiv's mechanism to deal with bad papers post-publication; what MIT calls for) or "retract" (the mechanism that traditional journals employ and similar to previous; a common term in academia). In arXiv's way of handling papers, "removal" and "withdraw" are distinct[0] and, based on some comments in this thread, current title seems to create confusion that is about the former.

[0]: https://info.arxiv.org/help/withdraw.html: "Articles that have been announced and made public cannot be completely removed. A withdrawal creates a new version of the paper marked as withdrawn."

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2. dang ◴[16 May 25 23:57 UTC] No.44010865[source]▶
Ok, I've withdrawn "take down" and put up "withdraw". Thanks!
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3. tough ◴[17 May 25 00:09 UTC] No.44010926[source]▶
take down gave it a DMCA vibe ngl