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• I am shocked!  Shocked I tell you!  (NOT!)  Academic authors ‘shocked’ after Taylor & Francis sells access to their research to Microsoft AI https://www.thebookseller.com/ ... @koutropoulos@social.ds106.us
• After 15+ years of hustling to publish #academic journal articles and books, a significant proportion of my work is now being sold off to #Microsoft to train #LLMs.  I never consented to this, and of course when I started my career, I never predicted this.  —  https://www.thebookseller.com/ ... … @rwg@aoir.social
• Academic authors ‘shocked’ after Taylor & Francis sells access to their research to Microsoft AI  —  ("Shocked" is not the word to describe *my* reaction btw) https://www.thebookseller.com/ ... @actualham@social.coop
• Coming soon 🔜 🔜 🔜 bibliometric rankings based on LLM embeddings and chatbot citations 🙃🎓  —  https://www.thebookseller.com/ ... @kdriscoll@aoir.social
• Lots of academics wondering what they should do about this and the answer is as simple as not publishing your monograph with Taylor & Francis or any of their imprints.  There are so many other publishers who will do a better job and won't sell your data to Microsoft.  —  https://www.thebookseller.com/ ... @Samuelmoore@hcommons.social
• Predictable grotesque behavior by Taylor and Francis.  Academic authors get robbed left and right, but this is a new low: it's selling off allegedly valuable knowledge for what feels like two pieces of stale bread. https://www.thebookseller.com/ ... @Zeb_Larson@zirk.us
• This is pretty outrageous though not surprising.  Academic publishing has always been a total scam. … Lydia Khalil
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