It is high time to create a list of authors, publishers and content creators of whatever type you enjoy who would never do this to you:
Nobody will protect the boundaries of our inner self. We will have to protect them ourselves. We will have to close ourselves down and patrol the perimeter. We will have to do our own border policing. Nothing that hasn’t been pre-vetted gets to come in.
There is no task more important at this moment than to establish very strict and impenetrable boundaries between our inner self and the world. The biggest class difference a decade from now will be between people who boundaried up hard and those who failed to do so.
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That’s throwing the baby out with the bathwater. Our whole role as intelligentsia is to be the high discernment yet high openness scouts of the Something Else.
Developing taste is an entirely different proposition from pre-vetting. If we need someone else to do our pre-vetting we have already abdicated.
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Pre-vetted by us, of course. Nobody is going to do this work for anybody else.
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Established authors and publishers aren’t the ones pushing out this slop. People are self publishing on Amazon and hoping people buy the books without realizing.
This is, of course, quite unfortunate for any new, self published author. More and more, any new writer will be met with suspicion.
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It is just a question of time when it makes its way to academic publishing if it already hasn’t done so. From the little I have seen, the acquisition editors have targets and a pressure to meet them. Professors in stem are notoriously slow with writing as books are not our main output so you prioritize papers. I have witnessed editors getting irate with authors of edited books over taking too long to respond. This is a perfect way to select for people not afraid to use AI to “help” with writing. Many of the editors are not scientists, at some point they will not be able to detect what was written by a person and what was written by AI. I’m not sure, but I suspect these things are already happening everywhere- papers, proposals, books….
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True. I can promise, however, that everything I have written was done by me. I even format my bibliography manually. I don’t “discuss” my ideas with AI or use it in any form.
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I believe you do. What percentage of academics has your discipline though? I would be surprised if it is as high as 10%.
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