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Authors have expressed their shock after the news that academic publisher Taylor & Francis, which owns Routledge, had sold access to its authors’ research as part of an Artificial Intelligence (AI) partnership with Microsoft—a deal worth almost £8m ($10m) in its first year.

On top of it all, that is such a low-ball number from Microsoft

The agreement with Microsoft was included in a trading update by the publisher’s parent company in May this year. However, academics published by the group claim they have not been told about the AI deal, were not given the opportunity to opt out and are receiving no extra payment for the use of their research by the tech company.

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[-] UnseriousAcademic@awful.systems 54 points 2 months ago

If this includes their journals then I guess my stuff is off to the big LLM melting pot to be regurgitated wrongly without context or attribution.

[-] frunch@lemmy.world 22 points 2 months ago
[-] TragicNotCute@lemmy.world 12 points 2 months ago

Progress is delicious. Like glue in your pasta sauce.

[-] fasterandworse@awful.systems 39 points 2 months ago

"it is providing Microsoft non-exclusive access to advanced learning content and data to help improve relevance and performance of AI systems".

I wish it wasn't normal to call these "systems" instead of "products"

[-] skillissuer@discuss.tchncs.de 27 points 2 months ago

disgusted, yeah, shocked, not really, have you seen the kind of shit elsevier pulls out? now T&F content joins all open access papers in wisdom woodchipper

$10M is peanuts, reddit deal was 6x bigger

[-] pyrex@awful.systems 15 points 2 months ago

I mean, if no one's getting paid, then my preferred price is $0, to everyone in the world.

[-] iAvicenna@lemmy.world 12 points 2 months ago

academic publishing companies are truly the scum of the Earth.

[-] dgerard@awful.systems 4 points 2 months ago

here too

https://pivot-to-ai.com/2024/07/20/taylor-francis-feeds-academics-work-to-microsoft-ai/

saw academics grumbling about free labour, so well done v clever T&F

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