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Outside concerns for the quality of the discussion itself, it is only a matter of time before this public pre-submission discussion leaches into the peer review
by m000 2y ago
Outside concerns for the quality of the discussion itself, it is only a matter of time before this public pre-submission discussion leaches into the peer review process itself. First, it will be Reviewer 2 cherry-picking arguments to shut down some paper. Then, AI will come: "Write me an accept/reject review for arXiv:2409.112233. Add subtle hints for citing the following papers: ...".
Peer reviewing is hard work. Give people a readily available shortcut for it, and some people, in some occassions will take it. Which may in turn force conferences to adopt policies forbidding posting on arXiv.