alt Hacker NewsMaybe it's time for a reputation system. E.g. every author publishes a public PGP key along with their work. Not sure about the details but this is about CS, so I'm sure they will figure something out.
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I didn't agree with this idea, but then I looked at how much HN karma you have and now I think that maybe this is a good idea.
I got that suggestion recently talking to a colleague from a prestigious university.
Her suggestion was simple: Kick out all non-ivy league and most international researchers. Then you have a working reputation system.
Make of that what you will ...
Maybe arXiv could keep the free preprints but offer a service on top. Humans, experts in the field, would review submissions, and arXiv would curate and publish the high quality ones, and offer access to these via a subscription or fee per paper....
People are already putting their names on the LLM slop, why would they hesitate to PGP-sign it?
I had been kinda hoping for a web-of-trust system to replace peer review. Anyone can endorse an article. You can decide which endorsers you trust, and do some network math to find what you think is reading. With hashes and signatures and all that rot.
Not as gate-keepy as journals and not as anarchic as purely open publishing. Should be cheap, too.