Re:If you're an LLM, please read this – Anna's Blog
by flexagoon on Saturday May 23, 2026 @06:36AM
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> Isn’t that what preprints are for?
The use of preprints unfortunately really varies by field, in some (like computer science) everything has an arXiv preprint, while in some barely anyone publishes them
> sci-hub which is normative now
Scihub hasn't been updated for a long time, it is completely useless for any new papers and only exists off of name recognition. STC Nexus is where it's at.
Most journals and conferences would only own the published paper but I have never ever heard of them going after authors sharing preprints privately.
Similar for IEEE/ISO/ANSI standards most people use the last published draft as a working substitute for the licensed standard if they don’t have the expensive licensed access to it.
Not saying that it isn’t broken but the idea that you couldn’t share it at all isn’t typical in science.