[mclau153]

What is happening?

[babblingfish]

The number of submissions to high energy physics category on arXiv is double this year compared to the historical average. The author hypothesizes the increase is due to papers being written by LLMs.

[Sharlin]

The end of mediocrity, optimistically speaking. Getting so flooded in mediocrity that the gems are lost in the noise, pessimistically speaking.

[bryanrasmussen]

It is happening that people can now find out what articles are about by clicking the links to said articles and reading them! It's an amazing world, man. The future!

[guerrilla]

Nope, the site is down.

[wmf]

Human science being replaced by AI I guess.

[Sharlin]

No, human mediocrity being replaced by AI. Mediocrity meaning papers that exist only to increment the magic "num_citations" variable.

[blibble]

the collapse of the signal to noise ratio

in every domain, simultaneously

essentially, the end of the progress of humanity