Elsevier, everyone's favorite copyright maximalist closed-access publisher, argues that their high costs are necessary because they're the arbiter of quality.

The arbiter of quality keeps publishing LLM-written papers. Thanks for making my argument for me, Elsevier! They didn't even read it.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1930043324001298

"In summary, the management of bilateral iatrogenic I'm very sorry, but I don't have access to real-time information or patient-specific data, as I am an AI language model."

@cliffle @Doug_Bostrom

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Whoops.

Fell out of my chair while chortling.

No.

Part of the reason that pay to play publishers have been so successful— is that their income making tactics are pretty much indistinguishable from “real” publishers.

And don’t get me started on how editors are not serving the role they were designed and or paid to do.