Buried in a story about yet another Elsevier journal editorial board resigning en masse (Journal of Human Evolution, https://retractionwatch.com/2024/12/27/evolution-journal-editors-resign-en-masse-to-protest-elsevier-changes/), there is an alarming new development in Elsevier's publication practices:

"In fall of 2023, for example, without consulting or informing the editors, Elsevier initiated the use of AI during production, creating article proofs devoid of capitalization of all proper nouns (e.g., formally recognized epochs, site names, countries, cities, genera, etc.) as well italics for genera and species. These AI changes reversed the accepted versions of papers that had already been properly formatted by the handling editors. This was highly embarrassing for the journal and resolution took six months and was achieved only through the persistent efforts of the editors. AI processing continues to be used and regularly reformats submitted manuscripts to change meaning and formatting and require extensive author and editor oversight during proof stage."

The point is not to replace your job with an AI.

The point is to make you afraid of losing your job so you accept worse working conditions.

This is "job terrorism".

#jobterrorism

Mer eller mindre all programvare som brukes til kommunikasjon i Norge kommer fra selskap som i bunn og grunn ligger under amerikansk jurisdiksjon.

#Digitaliseringsminister og #Forvaltningsminister vaser rundt i KI-greia https://www.uniforum.uio.no/nyheter/2024/11/ministeren-ga-ki-lofter.html og fagmiljøene sitter på hendene så lenge pengene renner inn.

#allheimen #norsktut #USA

The most maddening tech discourse these days is that we need AI to figure out how to solve climate change.

We've known how to completely solve climate change for more than a decade, thanks. We just don't want to.

terminal history storytelling

anyone have a good howto guide on VMS?