Went into my academia.edu account and worked out that they automatically opt everyone into "AI content". I've opted out for now but will probably delete the whole account soon, because yuck.

@scroeser

Yuck! How do they spell “coercive control”? 😐

@scroeser I've also started receiving bot spam via them this week...

I've been trying to figure out if there any value in that site, but it seems to be mostly a crappier version of research gate with some of the bad aspects of linkedIn on top, and every useful feature jammed behind a pay wall..

Does it have value?

@ned I have not felt like it has value, but then I'm not a particularly scribe researcher right now so I'm not sure