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Re:Evolution journal editors resign en masse to protest Else... by duxup on Friday December 27, 2024 @11:25PM (#42528555)
> 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. This was highly embarrassing for the journal and resolution took six months and was achieved only through the persistent efforts of the editors. AI processing continues to be used and regularly reformats submitted manuscripts to change meaning and formatting and require extensive author and editor oversight during proof stage

I was the removal of proper nouns some sort of AI safety mechanism?

Re:Evolution journal editors resign en masse to protest Else... by Thorrez on Saturday December 28, 2024 @12:55AM (#42528930)
I don't think the AI removed proper nouns, but rather uncapitalized the proper nouns. It sounds to me like the AI was trying to improve formatting, but instead made formatting worse.
Re:Evolution journal editors resign en masse to protest Else... by ciconia on Saturday December 28, 2024 @04:21AM (#42529707)
The proper question to ask is why is AI employed to edit articles when there's already a team of professional editors in place?
Re:Evolution journal editors resign en masse to protest Else... by fredfoo on Saturday December 28, 2024 @06:25AM (#42530259)
To get them to train an AI to replace them?
Re:Evolution journal editors resign en masse to protest Else... by duxup on Sunday December 29, 2024 @01:15PM (#42541679)
It’s a question, but it wasn’t my question.