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Not outside of ML, physics, and math. Preprints are extremely rare in many (dare I say most) scientific fields, and of course many times you are interested in n
by levocardia 1y ago
Not outside of ML, physics, and math. Preprints are extremely rare in many (dare I say most) scientific fields, and of course many times you are interested in not the cutting edge work, but the foundational work in a field from the 60s, 70s, or 80s, all of which is locked behind a paywall. Or at least it's supposed to be, and corporate LLMs are not "allowed" to go poking around on sketchy Russian website for non-paywalled versions.
- qingcharles 1y agoI'm assuming many AI companies are probably scraping all the PDFs from the "shadow libraries" of the world that have done some of the work of liberating these papers from behind their paywalls. Obviously it's legally unsettled territory right now...