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adamshostack

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Author, game designer, technologist, teacher.

Helped to create the CVE and many other things. Fixed autorun for XP. On Blackhat Review board.

Books include Threats: What Every Engineer Should Learn from Star Wars (2023), Threat Modeling: Designing for Security, and The New School of Information Security.

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herhandsmyhands , to romancelandia
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@romancelandia @bookstodon

Every time an author states that borrowing from a library "steals" sales from them, I want to scream.

Publishers have indoctrinated authors against libraries, to authors' own detriment. Libraries buy your book, and if it gets popular, they buy more copies--but more, they introduce readers to your work, and those readers will spread the word, even if they don't buy your books themselves.

are unpaid marketing. Be thankful.

adamshostack ,
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@emmaByrneAuthor @pmc @bookstodon @herhandsmyhands As an American author, the non payment by libraries doesn’t bother me at all. I’m happy when people read my books. (OTOH, I don’t write technical books for the royalties.)

ElenLeFoll , to random
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I just did some primary-school level investigative work using Google Scholar to find out whether the use of generative is genuinely a widespread issue in and, within five minutes, I have cause for despair... 😲

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Extract of one of the published papers. I have highlighted this passage: It is important to note that while I strive to provide accurate and up-to-date information, I am an AI language model and cannot replace the advice of a qualified healthcare professional. If you have specific questions or concerns about the use of Depakine Chronosphere or any other medication for epilepsy in children, it is best to consult with a pediatric neurologist or an appropriate healthcare provider who can evaluate the individual case and provide personalized recommendations.
Home page of one of the journals showing that it is indexed by Clarivate, Scopus, etc.

adamshostack ,
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@ElenLeFoll @academicsunite I'm enjoying the series; there's clearly a paper mill aspect that we should worry about; and the for-profit publishers are showing how much value they subtract.

Is there a legit use for LLMs in writing better summaries, abstracts, and other parts of papers?

I certainly read a fair number of papers where the authors can't write, and even an LLM can help make their work readable.

adamshostack ,
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@nicolaromano @ElenLeFoll @academicsunite Interesting -- I've been using template papers for a long time so haven't needed a structure.

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