I do find myself reading papers often for my work, and I share the once I find interesting or feel might have impact in future of my chosen domain. This is no advertisement, I don't know the authors or anyone related to the paper.

My father was a PhD psychologist and family therapist. He was on the witness stand during a custody case explaining a theory of personality when the cross-examining lawyer said scornfully "I'll bet you got that out of some book." To which my dad replied: "Why yes, in fact. In my profession, in order to learn things, we often read books."

Please continue doing so! I don't work in AI directly and Research highlights from community posts such as yours is how I keep up with the field.

Papers are shared all the time? I'm confused by this comment

There’s recently been a lot of “arxiv”-washing of commercial white papers recently

Is Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology a commercial entity?

KAIST is a top-tier South Korea university focused on science & engineering.

Can someone explain what this means? Reproducing some private work publicly?

I think they mean using arxiv to host whitepapers so they smell more academic.

What criteria one uses to distinguish a white paper from an academic paper?

Academic papers are peer reviewed white papers aren’t.

This paper is just accepted in NAACL which is a top NLP conference.

The true hackers study research.

Do you not?