All but one member of the editorial board of the Journal of Human Evolution (JHE), an Elsevier title, have resigned, saying the “sustained actions of Elsevier are fundamentally incompatible with the ethos of the journal and preclude maintaining the quality and integrity fundamental to JHE’s success.”
The resignation statement reads in part,
In fall of 2023, for example, without consulting or informing the editors, Elsevier initiated the use of AI during production, creating article proofs devoid of capitalization of all proper nouns (e.g., formally recognized epochs, site names, countries, cities, genera, etc.) as well italics for genera and species. These AI changes reversed the accepted versions of papers that had already been properly formatted by the handling editors.
(Via Pharyngula.)
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Nursing student here. Most of our textbooks are from Elsevier, and we’ve spotted some AI gibberish in those, too.
Makes me question the quality of the rest of the content.
…and the competency I’m supposedly taking from my education to real patient care.
