As an engineer, I write reports for forensic, cause and origin evaluation of structural failures. I’ve asked, “If AI is writing your report, then exactly what engineering failure analysis are you doing?”
The situation is truly saddening. Substack allows for works published on its platform to train AI models. However, the good thing here is that one may still opt-out of it, if one wants.
I also work for an academic publisher. This press is a non-profit, and that makes me wonder if their stance on AI feeding will be different. When I search up my press' use of AI, it only provides guidelines for authors who are submitting work to the press, not how the press will protect their work from AI... I am going to do some digging on this.
As an engineer, I write reports for forensic, cause and origin evaluation of structural failures. I’ve asked, “If AI is writing your report, then exactly what engineering failure analysis are you doing?”
I'm reminded of an old IBM rule: a computer can't be held accountable, so a computer shouldn't make a critical decision.
The situation is truly saddening. Substack allows for works published on its platform to train AI models. However, the good thing here is that one may still opt-out of it, if one wants.
I also work for an academic publisher. This press is a non-profit, and that makes me wonder if their stance on AI feeding will be different. When I search up my press' use of AI, it only provides guidelines for authors who are submitting work to the press, not how the press will protect their work from AI... I am going to do some digging on this.
Anecdotally, the non-profits are doing better, but that's all secondhand information.
Send me a message and we'll talk.