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 Aren't their unpaid peer reviewers the arbiters of quality?
@karabaic @cliffle The reviewers for this "journal" spend just 8 days on each paper.
@robinadams @cliffle You know, god created the world in just 6. Totes doable