Dan GoodmanYeah, let's give an American company access to loads of government data and pay them a load of money to run the government for us using software that systematically fabricates false information and has nasty racial biases. That'll surely stimulate the UK economy.
Stephen EglenI learnt only last week that publishers are making agreements with AI companies to mine *our* papers without royalties.
https://www.booksandpublishing.com.au/articles/2024/08/05/256559/wiley-oup-confirm-ai-partnerships
& in other news... yesterday was the day that the first offers from five publishers should have been released.
it feels like Groundhog day, but on a 3 year cycle.
Joe W@sje @neuralreckoning is there a way to tell the publishers to, well, sod off? The papers are mine!
lots of ways, depending on your energy levels
(a) refuse to review for those publishers
(b) discuss issue with local colleagues, particularly library colleagues.
(c) refuse to publish in those venues
@sje @neuralreckoning Too late for those. I'm out of academia, but would really not like to let those freeloading techbros benefit from my hard work.