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Now Is the Time to Give LLMs Access to the ACM Digital Library

Hacker News · history · fact-check: pass
SummaryProposal to give LLMs access to ACM Digital Library could reshape how AI tools research and cite academic work—useful for people using AI for research workflows.
44 → 190 points · peak 190 · 27 observations
Posted on X · 2026-07-29"Give LLMs access to the ACM library" sounds like it solves retrieval. It doesn't. The model still has to read every paper it cites as input tokens. At scale, that's not a research assistant — it's a line item. Access is step one. The billing is the product.