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I said it before and I'll say it again: scientific journals have hardly any relevance any more, except for academic careers. (mstdn.social)

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I said it before and I'll say it again: scientific journals have hardly any relevance any more, except for academic careers.

AI is just speeding up this evolution. We urgently need to rethink scientific communication!

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https://garymarcus.substack.com/p/the-exponential-enshittification

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago (1 children)

@firefly AI is not the only problem. The fact those articles got published is merely a symptom of a far larger problem, mostly created by the combination of carreers depending on number of publications and for-profit scientific publishers. Even without AI many publications contribute nothing. I have seen people reinvent linear models as a "powerful new method".

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

Yeah, "publish or perish" is not a sound scientific model. Nowadays many institutional researchers, writers and publishers have more in common with social media influencers than they do with bonafide scientists.