Academic publishers are parasites.
I have been working through a textbook this week that has a copyleft statement on every page, and was written by a government scientist who did not get paid to do it. When you access it through the publisher website there is a copyright and they’re charging $200 for access.
Replacing the human expert with a word-guessing machine is a logical progression in their unabashed rent seeking.
SW42@lemmy.world 2 days ago
At some stage this would have been inevitable. And it will only get worse in the future.
I think it will be better once the percentage of AI Slop reaches a level where the models are trained more and more on their own output. The effects of incest will then be visible and people will hopefully start thinking for themselves again.
floquant@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
Model Collapse is already starting to be a problem on current-gen models
SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Somebody hasn’t watched Idiocracy