Comment by eikenberry
4 hours ago
Why wouldn't they just skip the journals and publish the papers themselves? Sharing the research is the important part unless these are academics who are trying to get tenure, grants or such.
4 hours ago
Why wouldn't they just skip the journals and publish the papers themselves? Sharing the research is the important part unless these are academics who are trying to get tenure, grants or such.
For the individual employees, having your name on a peer reviewed paper in a prestigious journal makes you far more employable elsewhere.
Moreso if your current employer is a stealth AI startup which hasn't yet produced much notable.
It also can encourage employees to work for fewer wages... 'If you do great work you can publish and then get a $$$$$$ job offer at OpenAI, or you can stay here and get equity in a fast growing startup. If however your work doesn't do well, you walk away from a bankrupt startup with worthless shares and minimum wage'
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The article is complaining that research isn't peer reviewed and research is turning into blogs. I'm explaining why that's the best outcome possible and why in a field as hot as large dl models you won't even get that.
I thought parent post was saying that they didn't publish them at all after they had so much trouble with the journals. If they did publish the papers themselves then I don't see the problem. The article itself read to me as your standard journal rent seeking and I wasn't really responding to it.
>Why wouldn't they just skip the journals and publish the papers themselves? Sharing the research is the important part
To answer your question, sharing the research isn't the important part. These are researchers in the private sector, in a highly competitive field. Arguably, doing the research isn't the important part either. The important part is making money, and the research is a means to that end. Publishing the research doesn't further that goal, and, according to GP, it's so difficult that it may not be worthwhile trying.
Same reason movies released on YouTube aren’t treated with the same respect as those released in theaters.