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Academic publisher Taylor & Francis recently sold many of its authorsβ works to Microsoft for $10 million, without asking or paying the authors β to train Microsoftβs large language models!
Taylor & Francis asked their journal "Learning, Media and Technology" to cut peer review time to 15 days β absurdly little time β to crank out more content.
And Taylor & Francis's subsidiary Routledge told staff that it was βextra importantβ to meet publishing targets for 2024. It moved some book deadlines from 2025 to 2024. Why? To meet its deadline with Microsoft.
Another academic publisher, Wiley, made a $44 million deal to feed academic books to LLMs β with no way for authors to opt out. They say βit is in the public interest for these emerging technologies to be trained on high-quality, reliable information.β
When you publish with one of the big academic publishers, they try to make you sign a contract saying they can do whatever they want with your work. That means anything.
Hat-tip to
npub1yt367np07x3lxg06lnacatlerjuaqgg9la9eqq0muhdmj4n4j6ass4wmv6 (npub1yt3β¦wmv6) for pointing this out.
These articles have links to original sources:
https://pivot-to-ai.com/2024/08/04/more-academic-publishers-are-doing-ai-deals/https://pivot-to-ai.com/2024/09/28/routledge-nags-academics-to-finish-books-asap-to-feed-microsofts-ai/ 
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