I enjoyed your introduction, exposition and clarification of the issues surrounding IP in academia. We have clearly arrived at a digital liminal space where traditional solutions no longer apply.
I think the main problem in academia is attribution - for both personal ego but also research network reasons. But when an LLM searches and generates an answer, the probability next-word-generation calculus seems to make attribution problematic ... at least for current LLM iterations.
But I would love to see LLMs be able to identify the best info (defined as coming from the most credible sources, especially scholarly platforms), like some kind of hypercommons to democratize the best knowledge.
This seems to be the current problem with Perplexity who cannot afford access to the pay walls guarding high quality info, and what they are left with is scraping social media like reddit and LinkedIn articles.
Maybe the coffers of Microsoft are deep enough the democratize high quality knowledge and make it accessible in a hypercommons. I think most scholars would appreciate this as long as they get some form of attribution.
Thanks for the nod! I've been thinking a lot about this whole issue. People immediately told me to sue, and I said we have no grounds because we don't hold copyright, exactly as you and others noted. While we as authors don't have any control over what the publisher does with our work in terms of distribution, it feels like a betrayal to not even give notice that they were going to do this.
Following up on your ideas, I've been thinking about how this event can and should change academic publishing. I can imagine some independent academic presses popping up to "combat" this trend. But I can also see how this could positively impact things like open access journal publications and self-published print-on-demand books. I could even see higher ed developing rigorous standards of peer evaluation for self-published books. I'm hopeful that this will shake up the iron grip publishing companies have on academics who need to get tenure or promotion. Just some thoughts I've been mulling over.
I enjoyed your introduction, exposition and clarification of the issues surrounding IP in academia. We have clearly arrived at a digital liminal space where traditional solutions no longer apply.
I think the main problem in academia is attribution - for both personal ego but also research network reasons. But when an LLM searches and generates an answer, the probability next-word-generation calculus seems to make attribution problematic ... at least for current LLM iterations.
But I would love to see LLMs be able to identify the best info (defined as coming from the most credible sources, especially scholarly platforms), like some kind of hypercommons to democratize the best knowledge.
This seems to be the current problem with Perplexity who cannot afford access to the pay walls guarding high quality info, and what they are left with is scraping social media like reddit and LinkedIn articles.
Maybe the coffers of Microsoft are deep enough the democratize high quality knowledge and make it accessible in a hypercommons. I think most scholars would appreciate this as long as they get some form of attribution.
Thanks for the nod! I've been thinking a lot about this whole issue. People immediately told me to sue, and I said we have no grounds because we don't hold copyright, exactly as you and others noted. While we as authors don't have any control over what the publisher does with our work in terms of distribution, it feels like a betrayal to not even give notice that they were going to do this.
Following up on your ideas, I've been thinking about how this event can and should change academic publishing. I can imagine some independent academic presses popping up to "combat" this trend. But I can also see how this could positively impact things like open access journal publications and self-published print-on-demand books. I could even see higher ed developing rigorous standards of peer evaluation for self-published books. I'm hopeful that this will shake up the iron grip publishing companies have on academics who need to get tenure or promotion. Just some thoughts I've been mulling over.