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The one thing I'm aware of is Brave's Goggles project: https://search.brave.com/help/goggles - it basically allows you to set up your own ranking algorithm with a specific syntax (it links to Github repo and, there, to a white paper).

I haven't seen more attempts at similar things, which doesn't mean they don't exist though. (There were mentions of a similar feature being added when Elon Musk was about to buy Twitter, but just gossips)

Most definitely.

An advantage of having open peer review system is also that this kind of attempts could be detected by tools doing automatic processing of scientific knowledge graphs generated by peer review activity.

This, coupled with verification of users, should be able to minimize the risk quite significantly.

For manual flagging, you can use Unfold Research to leave a review on the paper itself for anyone to see it, and you can add review tags and a description about what you think is wrong with it: https://twitter.com/UnfoldResearch/status/156099536649284812...

Tools like scite (https://scite.ai/) do automatic processing (NLP) of other papers and determine whether a reference relationships supports or rejects the paper.

Also, http://octopus.ac/ did NLP processing on papers to make a breakdown of them and extract pieces to populate the content on their website, but they seem to have removed the content on their Github since then.

This model is borrowed and adapted from venture capital. It's based on return on a risk. As in VC, many ventures fail or have minimal returns, yet VC as a model is successful. Why? Because small percentage of those makes up for the loss on all the other investments. It's a "game of numbers".

As in VC, amount of success would vary. Smart choices would lead to good outcomes, and all is up to you if you're willing to take such risk and what choices to make.

There are ways to make sure that payments are to be made when possible and having insights into revenu streams as a third party.

There are pros and cons, like it was listed on the website. It is not for everyone, but some people might need just that approach.

Thanks for honest feedback!

What startup hires a freelancer and gives him stock for a one time project? For startups they'd need to give out portion of stock, and for a freelancer, they moght not be getting that much at all. Venturly model would assume that freelancer took a serious risk and would yield higher returns overall.