Question for Europeanists/WWII historians: One of my new projects is about the 100s of trees scattered across Japan that carry wounds of WWII in their morphology. Many have become key sites of local memorialization. Anything comparable in Europe or elsewhere? Any particular trees come to mind?
Thanks to my friend Anna for flagging this for me, an excellent example of how AI has made search engine results absolute garbage. For the record, I am a professor of the history of art at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. I did author this article, though, which makes this extra delicious.
I am so miserably sad about being in a situation in which tech companies are making money having convinced administrators in education that āeveryoneā is using AI and theyāll be left behind if they donāt demand faculty use it too. Where are the deans who are standing up and calling BS?
There is power in collective action, indeed it's really the only power we have.
And those of us who have the privilege of tenure & are not threatened by the need to engage with 'top' journals, please stop submitting to, or doing editorial or reviewing work for any publisher which carries out this unethical, non-consensual exploitation of scholarly work. #academicsky
Anyone out there running a journal for Wiley - now is the time to follow the example of the editors of Philosophy and Public Affairs, and Syntax: be courageous, resign en masse and rebuild your title independently. #academicsky
Okay, so Elsevier, Routledge, and now Wiley are all out now. Sounds like academics really need to step our own efforts to create and sustain independent, open access, non-profit publishing. #academicsky
"Academic publisher Wiley has revealed it is set to make $44 million (Ā£33 million) from Artificial Intelligence (AI) partnerships that it is not giving authors the opportunity to opt-out from." AI in publishing going great then www.thebookseller.com/news/wiley-s...
The US publisher is the latest to capitalise on deals to give tech firms access to its authorsā content to train their Large Language Models (LLMs).
It's amazing to me that "criticizing the use of AI" is supposedly classism, but "building a product on the stolen work of people with a median annual income of $25k and refusing to compensate them because you know they can't afford lawyers" isn't.
Registration is now open for Racial Histories of Higher Education in New England, co-hosted by the Mass. Historical Society and the New England Quarterly. A full day of panels and a keynote address by Yale historian David Blight. Details and registration: www.masshist.org/racial-histo...