Got this email earlier and I’m still upset about it. Some unnamed “team from #Northwestern, #Stanford & #Cornell” fed our preprint through their “#AI" to generate "suggestions" on how we could improve it.
This feels like some really shit #HCI study that seems to think asking for consent is optional. And like one that wants to spin out into an even shittier start-up in the future (hence not giving any names of team members)?
@gedankenstuecke@academicchatter@hci agree on the shitiness of the lack of consent. I would also associate that with the ongoing decline of ethics in computer science as a discipline - the big tech culture is flowing into the discipline and the sense of break things is very noticeable...
@mhaklay@academicchatter@hci Beyond the lack of consent, the anonymity also really bothers me I have to say. I think I would mind a lot less if there were some names of researchers attached to it, instead of hiding behind a generic email and throwing around the names of institutions.
Otherwise fully agree, touching computers is becoming more and more problematic and has been for years now.
Recommended title: “Building a Peer-Supported Wiki for Personal Science: Design”
Reasoning: This title provides a comprehensive view of the stages involved in the paper
@hauschke@academicchatter@hci@serhii yeah, but a scam that’s still hosted under Northwestern's domain! I did email back asking if this is a research study and if so who the PI is and which IRB approved this.
@gedankenstuecke@academicchatter@hci@tante I'm not sure which is worse, the idea that they didn't even bother to run their email through a grammar checker, or the fear that they ran it through an AI grammar checker and thought it was fine.