arXiv will no longer accept review articles and position papers unless they have been accepted at a journal or a conference and complete successful peer review.
This is due to being overwhelmed by a hundreds of AI generated papers a month.
Yet another open submission process killed by LLMs.
@carnage4life
What a pain.
I fully agree with the objective of suppressing AI generated slop, but the mechanism of insisting on peer review seems entirely contrary to the point of arXiv being a *preprint* service.
Plus, there is value in the diversity of content in preprints, which gets reduced by standard formats and typical publication venues. Peer review isn't necessarily good at promoting ideas outside the bandwagon-du-jour.
@RossGayler @carnage4life
From the shared page:
"Is this a policy change?
Technically, no! If you take a look at arXiv’s policies for specific content types you’ll notice that review articles and position papers are not (and have never been) listed as part of the accepted content types. Review articles and position papers have, in the past, only been accepted at moderator discretion, because the few we received were of high quality and of interest to arXiv readers and the scientific community at large."
