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

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293 points carabiner | 1 comments | 16 May 25 15:09 UTC | HN request time: 0.246s | source
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tokai ◴[16 May 25 19:29 UTC] No.44009006[source]▶
Impressively the paper seems to have been cited 50 times already. I don't mind much if its taken down or not, but with the old guard publishers you can at least get a redaction notice or comment about the issues with a paper embedded in the publication. If you find this paper cited somewhere and follow it to the source at arxiv, you will never be made aware of the disputes surrounding the research. Preprint servers has somewhat of a weakness here.
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1. gus_massa ◴[17 May 25 02:53 UTC] No.44011687[source]▶
Most of the 50 citations are preprint servers (like arXiv) or aggregators (like researchgate). It would be nice to count the number of citations in research papers in peer review journals.

> you will never be made aware of the disputes surrounding the research

ArXiv is not peer review, so it's as confiable as Wordpress or Medium or Blogspot or X/Tweeter or ... The main difference is that the post is in PDF instead of HTML. There is an invitation system to avoid very stupid cases, but it's very week.

I remember a weird cryptography "breakthrough", and they published it in arXiv, and the first 5 pages were an explanation of the rule of 9 for divisibility and then a dubious fast factorization algorithm. [The preprint was linked in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20666501 and I replied to it (s/module/modulo/g)]