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submitted 3 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 3 months ago (1 children)

fuck this horseshit, half of my publishing is with wiley. is there a shop out there that doesn't feed all of its papers to wisdom woodchipper?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I don't know of one that has definitively said that they won't.

Fuck it, we're going to have to found a publisher.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 months ago

Journal of Awful Studies

[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Glad you covered this. Can only imagine b-movie villain types sitting behind a desk telling their employees to work faster to produce the swill

[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

it's always nice when a story just comes in on the twitter and nobody else has covered it yet

b-movie villain types sitting behind a desk

correct, academic publishing

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago

basically the wal-mart version of the Reapers from Mass Effect.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago

Masto reply guy: "is it not better to train LLM on proper academic papers rather than random rants on Twitter and Reddit?"

well, actually, it's better to train them not at all, and if anyone advocates their use, to kick them in the nads repeatedly