(15 Jul 2024) There are lawsuits for every type of creator. Journalists, novelists, visual artists, musicians, programmers, and actors all have lawsuits in their name. However, all the lawsuits ask one fundamental question: When, if ever, is it acceptable to train an AI on copyright-protected work without permission? This seems like an existential threat to AI, and in many ways, it is.…
(18 Jul 2024) Predatory conferences, akin to predatory journals, often lack proper peer review and are primarily profit-driven. They are characterized by deceptive practices, such as listing speakers who are unaware of the event or collecting registration fees for conferences that do not occur. Nature sent a reporter to find out as part of an…
(9 Jul 2024) From Google Scholar Blog: Scholar Metrics provide an easy way for authors to quickly gauge the visibility and influence of recent articles in scholarly publications. Today, we are releasing the 2024 version of Scholar Metrics. This release covers articles published in 2019–2023 and includes citations from all articles that were indexed in…