Exciting new frontiers in ̶s̶c̶a̶m̶s̶ ̶ academic publishing

A new step has been added to the mind-boggling scam that is academic publishing:

1. Conduct research (publicly funded)
2. Write up research (publicly funded or academic volunteer)
3. Peer review (academic volunteer)
4. Publish for profit (corporate publishers)
5. Pay for access (the public, universities and academics)
6. New! Sell papers to train large language models (corporate publishers)

The process for open access is pretty much the same. The public pays or academics self-fund usurious open access article processing fees at Step 3.5.

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