NEW: Springer Nature — the prestigious publisher of scientific journals like Nature and the 1845-founded magazine Scientific American — is imploring published journal authors to buy $49 AI-generated "Media Kits" that summarize their own work. futurism.com/springer-nat... - ThreadSky

mharrisondupre.bsky.social • 45 days ago

NEW: Springer Nature — the prestigious publisher of scientific journals like Nature and the 1845-founded magazine Scientific American — is imploring published journal authors to buy $49 AI-generated "Media Kits" that summarize their own work.

https://futurism.com/springer-nature-ai-media-kit

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docleslie.bsky.social•44 days ago

That seems beyond ridiculous when authors could generate them on their own in <.0000237 seconds.

mathewgwilson.bsky.social•43 days ago

This is like going to a michelin star restaurant and receiving a Big Mac.

The value of scientific writing comes from the provenance of being written by an expert who is wilfully and meaningfully communicating the work. Even if #AI improves, it’s qualitatively unable to do this job

lekevbo.bsky.social•39 days ago

Send them an AI summary of their offer with a bill for $49.

jrossibarra.bsky.social•45 days ago

@biorxivpreprint.bsky.social will sell you an AI summary of varying levels of sophistication for double their normal publication fees. So… still zero.

mharrisondupre.bsky.social•45 days ago

Per an email sent to authors, the "Kit" includes a ~250-word plain language summary; a ~300-word research brief; a short audio summary; and a few chunks of social media copy. All AI-generated.

gkalinkat.bsky.social•45 days ago

Interesting: ScienceCast has been offering AI generated audio-summaries for free for authors of ArXiv/biorXiv preprints since 2022

see https://blog.arxiv.org/2022/12/16/new-arxivlabs-collaboration-links-author-videos-on-sciencecast-org-to-their-arxiv-papers/

I have used this & found it pretty good, but not sure I would pay for it
https://sciencecast.org/casts/ihebu10rfg69

furiousvoter.bsky.social•44 days ago

Regular journalism articles about research were tricky already to get right. Summaries and main points could be misunderstood despite best efforts (and sometimes no effort). Now AI - which makes up results in all my published research - gets to do it for far cheaper. Yay.

vnoel.bsky.social•44 days ago

So what you say is that you've published results that were AI-generated and wrong?

furiousvoter.bsky.social•44 days ago

No. I’m saying that if you ask AI to summarize my published research, it does it wrong and makes shit up.

vnoel.bsky.social•44 days ago

Phew that's better thanks
Sorry I misunderstood

jraasch.bsky.social•45 days ago

$49 … which means there isn’t a human checking the copy for accuracy or ensure it even makes sense. What could possibly go wrong? 🙄

This will release a flood of misinformation, poor communication, unanticipated public reaction, awkward interviews, and myths impossible to pull back from the world.

erikhoffner.bsky.social•45 days ago

🤔

atulharia.bsky.social•44 days ago

What kind of grifting fuckery is this...

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