Microsoft and OpenAI may scrape stuff but at least they don’t then try to lock everyone else out from being able to read the original.

A big step up from Elsevier

Distinguished lawyers and professors have done the same in the past, I wouldn’t rule it out.

People, particularly outside tech, have a tendency to imaging the chatbot is like a person they can ask to testify.

Feeding it into AI’s is one of the things countless researchers would love to do with scientific literature in order to fuel more discoveries for the benefit of everyone.

but the parasitic journal owners try to heavily restrict what you can do with the text even after you’ve paid out the nose to publish and paid out the nose for subscriptions.

and academic journals without their consent.

Good.

Elsevier and their ilk are pure parasites. They take work paid for by public funding and charge scientists to publish, they do basically nothing, they don’t review the work, they don’t do formatting, they don’t even do so much as check for spelling mistakes. They exist purely because of a quirk of history and the difficulty of coordinating moving away from assessing academics based on prestige and impact factor of publications.

They’re parasitic organisations who try to lock up public information.