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   Robert W. Gehl (rwg@aoir.social)'s status on Sunday, 21-Jul-2024 04:01:14 JST Robert W. Gehl

   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/news/academic-authors-shocked-after-taylor--francis-sells-access-to-their-research-to-microsoft-ai

   That whoosh you're hearing is me rushing to sign on to whatever class action lawsuit is in the offing.

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     Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Sunday, 21-Jul-2024 05:44:58 JST Aral Balkan

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     @rwg The new robber barons.

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     Robert W. Gehl (rwg@aoir.social)'s status on Sunday, 21-Jul-2024 16:48:04 JST Robert W. Gehl

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     I said it before, I'll say it again and again: I don't consent to this. I get nothing, absolutely nothing for it, while corporations make bank on my work and the work of my colleagues.

     I will never ever use whatever dumbass tool Microsoft or #TaylorandFrancis will make. I won't learn anything from their tools, which will only ever be derivative garbage, and now my work is fuelling the climate crisis all the more so my kid will suffer, too.

     (to say I'm angry about this is an understatement.)