Another set of proofs, another set of complaints about a copyeditor making changes to my writing in ways that distort my meaning. If I get grumpy about a human doing my writing for me, why would I ever want generative AI to do it?
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Another paper, another fight with copyeditors about not capitalizing danah boyd’s name.
Journal copyeditors are great when they fix things, but when they break my sentences and don’t ask questions about “[information removed for blinding]”, I wonder what the point is.
Journal copyeditor changed a bunch of first-person language in our abstract to third-person “the authors,” and I am peeved.
Every copyright transfer I sign destroys another part of my soul.
College conversation about investment in GPT-type tech to support research is continuing. I think it’s… fitting that the survey being circulated is clearly using Qualtrics’s auto-suggested Likert responses—and that the responses aren’t quite right for the questions being asked.
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