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I was invited to speak at an internal Wiley-Blackwell seminar. Before the seminar, they interviewed me for their Publishing News. I can’t find a copy of the interview online anymore, so I have reproduced it below. I made several predictions in this interview, and it’s interesting to see which ones played out. As I review this (in 2024), I’m reminded of how insistent certain researchers were that publishers should make their articles easily available for text mining so that we could analyze the literature at scale. Of course, now we see researchers aghast that giant, well-funded AI companies have done precisely that to feed their LLMs. ...