arXiv papers grew 17% longer over the past decade, and AI may stretch them further
luismbat · x · 2026-10-02
A widely shared statistic shows the average length of arXiv papers has grown about 17% over the past decade. Physicist Sabine Hossenfelder quote-shared it with a prediction that paper length will increase substantially further, plausibly accelerated by LLM-assisted writing and paper generation.
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