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Academic authors 'shocked' after Taylor & Francis sells access to their research to Microsoft AI (www.thebookseller.com)

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Authors have expressed their shock after the news that academic publisher Taylor & Francis, which owns Routledge, had sold access to its authors’ research as part of an Artificial Intelligence (AI) partnership with Microsoft—a deal worth almost £8m ($10m) in its first year.

On top of it all, that is such a low-ball number from Microsoft

The agreement with Microsoft was included in a trading update by the publisher’s parent company in May this year. However, academics published by the group claim they have not been told about the AI deal, were not given the opportunity to opt out and are receiving no extra payment for the use of their research by the tech company.

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[–] TWeaK@lemm.ee 55 points 4 months ago (1 children)

£10 million for a huge chunk of the world's knowledge, without paying the authors. They do nothing and sell us for cheap.

[–] sunzu@kbin.run 10 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Rent seekers bruhh I don't see why people are still denial about how the exploitation regime operates