8 comments

  • fsmv23 minutes ago
    How about we give humans access
    • m-hodges15 minutes ago
      Do humans not have access? <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;dl.acm.org&#x2F;openaccess" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;dl.acm.org&#x2F;openaccess</a>
  • juancn52 minutes ago
    They probably already scraped it.
  • skippyfish46 minutes ago
    ACM has been leaning heavily into AI-generated content for their journals in the past year, and this article is no exception: it appears to be 100% AI generated and full of LLM verbiage.<p>There&#x27;s something hilarious about that, but also, snake eating its own tail.
  • ilaksh47 minutes ago
    I don&#x27;t want to be mean but if it&#x27;s that hard to even recognize that LLMs are even a valid thing that could intersect with your business that you need some kind of campaign for it..<p>It&#x27;s almost like, &quot;don&#x27;t hurt yourself unc, we will just search arxiv&quot;.
  • recursivedoubts1 hour ago
    the digital library should have always been open access<p>now it will be fodder for the slop machine<p>(i think that LLMs are going to wreck the peer review system for all but hard-experimental papers)
    • ilaksh55 minutes ago
      The real efficacy of the peer review system has always been somewhat questionable. That&#x27;s a big reason why arxiv is so prominent.
    • jmount1 hour ago
      Came to say the same thing. Now remains the time to give the public access to the ACM digital library.
      • cobbal35 minutes ago
        ACM agrees I think: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;dl.acm.org&#x2F;openaccess" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;dl.acm.org&#x2F;openaccess</a><p>&gt; Beginning January 2026, all ACM publications and related artifacts in the ACM Digital Library will be made open access.
        • harles13 minutes ago
          Wait, so did this already happen and it just didn’t get attention?
          • philipkglass2 minutes ago
            It was a front page story here on HN back in December 2025:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=46313991">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=46313991</a>
    • dan_gee54 minutes ago
      [dead]
  • skywhopper42 minutes ago
    TLDR: “we’re going to try to get money from LLM providers for access to our back catalog without getting permission from the authors or providing them with any share of the revenue”.
    • anticensor37 minutes ago
      Scholarly article authors never expected royalty or permission for their scholarly works to be reused.
  • hbnfg33 minutes ago
    [flagged]
  • 3012987523 minutes ago
    ACM bureaucrats and AI shills are flagging dissent. Welcome to 2026. The entire Internet is just top down propaganda.