Post #3015740
2025-12-17 09:51 UTC
@wilbowma@types.pl Dear Jack Davidson, Wayne Graves,
The ACM Digital Library provides an important service to computer science, facilitating access to the primary research literature.
I am dismayed to see that it now, rather than showing the author-written and peer-reviewed abstracts of papers, displays an AI-generated summary. To add insult to injury, it moreover does so in a way that will very easily be misread to be the authors' text.
This is antithetical to the practice and progress of science, and misrepresentation of the author and of the peer-review process. It is also a waste of ACM resources. The hazards should be clear to anyone involved in the scientific process.
Please remove this feature immediately.
best wishes,
Peter Sewell
Professor of Computer Science, University of Cambridge. FRS
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@jesper@agda.club 2025-12-17 10:51
@peter_sewell_@types.pl @wilbowma@types.pl Thank you for writing this. It made me think that perhaps we could create a public letter to the ACM that everyone can sign, demanding the removal of this "feature". Hopefully once they see people are opposed to it, they might still revert it (and if they don't then people can make their own conclusions on whether they want to boycott, but at least it would trigger some kind of response).