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Now is the time to give LLMs access to the ACM digital library

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Re: Now is the time to give LLMs access to the ACM digital library

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the digital library should have always been open access now it will be fodder for the slop machine (i think that LLMs are going to wreck the peer review system for all but hard-experimental papers)

Came to say the same thing. Now remains the time to give the public access to the ACM digital library.

ACM agrees I think: https://dl.acm.org/openaccess

> Beginning January 2026, all ACM publications and related artifacts in the ACM Digital Library will be made open access.

Re: Now is the time to give LLMs access to the ACM digital library

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Came to say the same thing. Now remains the time to give the public access to the ACM digital library.

ACM agrees I think: https://dl.acm.org/openaccess > Beginning January 2026, all ACM publications and related artifacts in the ACM Digital Library will be made open access.

Wait, so did this already happen and it just didn’t get attention?

Re: Now is the time to give LLMs access to the ACM digital library

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

ACM agrees I think: https://dl.acm.org/openaccess > Beginning January 2026, all ACM publications and related artifacts in the ACM Digital Library will be made open access.

Wait, so did this already happen and it just didn’t get attention?

It was a front page story here on HN back in December 2025:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46313991

Re: Now is the time to give LLMs access to the ACM digital library

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

ACM agrees I think: https://dl.acm.org/openaccess > Beginning January 2026, all ACM publications and related artifacts in the ACM Digital Library will be made open access.

Wait, so did this already happen and it just didn’t get attention?

It got a lot of discussion here when it happened and before as they phased it in.

Re: Now is the time to give LLMs access to the ACM digital library

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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. There's something hilarious about that, but also, snake eating its own tail.

I don't think this is AI-generated. It is focused and direct. It reads like anodyne albeit totally human academic manager writing.
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