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   Bongolian (bongolian@mstdn.social)'s status on Saturday, 28-Dec-2024 05:25:32 JST Bongolian

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   • Cory Doctorow
   • Ian

   @shojiwax
   From the link:
   "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. …"

   @pluralistic #retractions

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     Ian (shojiwax@mastodon.online)'s status on Saturday, 28-Dec-2024 05:25:33 JST Ian

     Enshitification by Elsevier

     #science #ai

     https://retractionwatch.com/2024/12/27/evolution-journal-editors-resign-en-masse-to-protest-elsevier-changes/

     Cory Doctorow and Paul Cantrell repeated this.
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     Craig Lee (cell911@techhub.social)'s status on Saturday, 28-Dec-2024 06:24:19 JST Craig Lee

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     • Cory Doctorow
     • Ian

     @Bongolian @shojiwax @pluralistic as a long-ago peer-reviewed journal copy editor, this is horrifying.