Deutschlandfunk is legit reporting and it’s definitely a great contribution. My only critique is that they did fall for SN’s BS about “real” profit margins being way smaller.. still a good piece about the drain et al

Yeah, that was my thinking: AI is just a symptom of larger underlying issues. Publish or perish has been pushing LLM short cuts etc.. AI (similar to the internet before) isn’t the root cause of all evil, it’s just amplifying the issues..

🤔 I guess you’re right. But lots of enshittification added recently, no? I was working on a very very very rough draft of enshittification in academic publishing before the holidays - are you saying not worth continuing down that path?

Great, but with lots more grey hair. What about you? What are you up to these days?

There’s a certain type of publisher claim that always amuses me: “the value added to academic publishing”… used to be peer review, now it’s detecting AI slob

(Also, icyi, here are the 42 papers citing our non-existent paper which includes a "meta-analysis" - often called the evidence "gold standard" - of "LLM effects" in education 🤮
scholar.google.com.vn/scholar?star...)

🤡 😜

Oh, 8am! For us it's 9pm. Which seems fair, since kids are in bed etc.

Reminds me of Ottawa 3-4 years ago. They now have a new system. It's as much high pressure but at least you are in a virtual queue and the website doesn't break down anymore...