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"There’s been a mass resignation of the editors at
The Journal of Human
Evolution. The reason? Elsevier has, as usual, mismanaged the journal and done
everything they could to maximize profit at the expense of quality. In
particular, they decided that human editors were too expensive, so they’re
trying to do the job with AI.
In fall of 2023, for example, without consulting or informing the editors,
Elsevier initiated the use of AI during production, creating article proofs
devoid of capitalization of all proper nouns (e.g., formally recognized
epochs, site names, countries, cities, genera, etc.) as well italics for
genera and species. These AI changes reversed the accepted versions of
papers that had already been properly formatted by the handling editors.
This was highly embarrassing for the journal and resolution took six months
and was achieved only through the persistent efforts of the editors. AI
processing continues to be used and regularly reformats submitted
manuscripts to change meaning and formatting and require extensive author
and editor oversight during proof stage.
They also proposed cutting the pay for the editor-in-chief in half.
Keep in mind that Elsevier charges authors a $3990 processing fee for each
submission. I guess they needed to improve the economics of their piratical
mode of operation a little more."
Via Susan ****
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics