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jedbrown@neuromatch.social ("Jed Brown") wrote:
If you are an academic who uses arXiv, please consider signing this.
Give Authors Control: Let Us Decide If AI Bots Can Read Our arXiv Papers
We are calling on arXiv to implement a simple permission toggle during submission, allowing authors to decide what automated scrapers can access:
Full Access: Bots can read and scrape the full text and source files.
Metadata Only: Bots are restricted to the Title, Abstract, and Citation metadata.
Open science for human readers should not mean mandatory, unconsented data harvesting by commercial entities. Advancing scientific knowledge demands immense time, resources, and intellectual rigor — we deserve a say in whether our original work is fed into massive, opaque training sets.