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Academic publishers face antitrust lawsuit
Six scholarly publishers have been hit with an antitrust lawsuit for allegedly appropriating billions of dollars in public ...
The Chronicle of Higher Education17h
‘A Massive Scandal': Does a Landmark Lawsuit Against Academic Publishers Have Legs?
Gag rules.” Price fixing. “Anticompetitive agreements.” A new lawsuit seeks to skewer academic-publishing heavyweights, but ...
Scientists File Antitrust Lawsuit Against Six Journal Publishers
A group of scientists has filed an antitrust claim against 6 publishers of academic journals alleging a conspiracy to make ...
The Chronicle of Higher Education23h
There is More Than Is Dreamt of in Our Academic Philosophy
In a 2020 essay critiquing academic philosophy’s norms against aestheticizing or personalizing one’s writing, the philosopher ...
Fake GPT-written studies are flooding Google Scholar. Here's why taking them down could make things worse.
A study says fake research papers made with AI are "susceptible to disinformation" but taking them down could fuel ...
Publishers Weekly2d
Academic Publishers Hit with Antitrust Suit over Peer Review
The suit accuses six major publishers of establishing a cartel through its international trade association, STM, and using ...
Study finds AI-generated research papers on Google Scholar - why it matters
By this point, most chatbot users have accepted the possibility that artificial intelligence (AI) tools will hallucinate in ...
Academic publishers face class action over ‘peer review’ pay, other restrictions
A University of California Los Angeles neuroscience professor has sued six major academic journal publishers, claiming in a ...
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Academic Journal Takes Note of San Diego’s Comic-Con
Con's growth "from an informal gathering of 'geeks' into a centerpiece of San Diego's bustling, gentrified, tourist-trapping ...
Library & Information Science News3d
GPT-fabricated scientific papers on Google Scholar: Key features, spread, and implications for preempting evidence manipulation
Academic journals, archives, and repositories are seeing an increasing number of questionable research papers clearly produced using generative AI. They are often created with widely available, ...
Inside Higher Ed4d
Scientists File Antitrust Lawsuit Against Journal Publishers
A group of scientists and scholars are accusing six academic journal publishers of working together to exploit their labor, in violation of federal antitrust laws. The scientists filed a class action ...