If you still have an account on academia.edu, you should probably delete it

[jubalbarca@scholar.social]

If you still have an account on academia.edu, you should probably delete it.

I'm not sure how their new terms are legal: they give the site the right to use your data *in any manner*. This is mainly to help them scrape academic work and republish/mangle parts of it through AI without credit: but these terms go way beyond that into your likeness, your voice, even your signature.

Please boost this to academics you know. Further PSA elements in thread:

#academia #science #history #universities

[taoish@mastodonapp.uk]

@JubalBarca
Two egregious things about Academia.edu:

1) their new TOS are "irrevocable" and "transferable", and explicitly include the use of your name, likeness, photo and voice "for any purpose."

They could literally make you the new spokesperson for neo-nazis, or chicken mcnuggets, under those terms.

2) someone here says that Academia.edu has already sent out emails purporting to be from them, urging folks to join academia.edu or whatever. One went to a leading figure in the person's field.

@histodons #academia