ACM Digital Library’s AI generated summaries of articles letter
[Email sent to the ACM Digital Library team]
Dear Digital Library team,
ACM is my preferred publisher and I love the digital library, it has been the best resource for computer science papers.
I am deeply distressed and offended to find that the ACM Digital Library is now going to provide AI generated summaries of papers I have written. This is not something to which I have, or would consent. This adds no value to articles which already have abstracts, written by real humans who understood the paper. The use of Generative AI in general is deeply problematic in a huge variety of ways, and in this instance I consider that it would be immoral for me to consent to this. Implying that using generative AI is somehow OK or normative where my students would see it is deeply problematic as it is already destroying their ability to learn anything.
My view is that the ACM should focus on getting the fundamentals right, rather than expensive gimmicks like this. For example, the advanced search tool only lets you filter by journals, not conference proceedings on the initial search page, though you can filter by them on the search results page. So there are clearly basic, useful, and uncontroversial features left to implement
Please roll back this feature immediately, or at least make it opt-in if you must do it.
Thank you & best wishes,
Daniel
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