June 24, 2024
I missed this David Crotty post from the fall, on still-more concentration in scholarly publishing: Overall, the market has significantly consolidated since 2000 — when the top 5 publishers held 39% of the market of articles to 2022 where they control 61% of it....
June 21, 2024
Serge Horbach, Michael Ochsner, and Wolfgang Kaltenbrunner, in a Leiden Madtrics post, detail a vexing guest-editing role at a Frontiers journal, circa late 2022: Reviewers are selected by an internal artificial intelligence algorithm on the basis of keywords...
June 19, 2024
As if on cue, Open Future releases a new brief call for meaningful training data transparency: Transparency of the data used to train AI models is a prerequisite for understanding how these models work. It is crucial for improving accountability in AI development and...
June 19, 2024
Open Future’s Alek Tarkowski, writing in March about Europe’s AI Act: Overall, the AI Act does not introduce meaningful obligations for training data transparency, despite the fact that they are crucial to the socially responsible development of what the Act defines...
May 24, 2024
I missed this Steven Harnad piece from last May. It is trademark Harnad: So, you should ask, with online publishing costs near zero, and quality control provided gratis by peer reviewers, what could possibly explain, let alone justify, levying a fee on S&S...
May 9, 2024
I missed this great Markup piece when it was published last November. It tells the story of dorm-to-classroom surveillance through the lens of a California college student: By the time Natividad went to bed that night, Google and Facebook had data about which Mt. SAC...
