arXiv raised $17.2 million, partly to handle AI-written papers.
arXiv, the free site where most AI research appears first, took $17.2 million in donations on Wednesday. Three funders gave the money over three to five years as arXiv splits from Cornell University. Part of it pays for tools to manage AI-generated submissions, a problem arXiv named itself.
Why it mattersAlmost every AI result you read about starts as a free paper on arXiv. Who pays for that pipe, and who screens it, now has an answer.
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