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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link="#467886" vlink="#96607D" style='word-wrap:break-word'><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>I didn’t know where else to effectively ask this.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>I am NOT asking whether the USE of SciSpace is ethical. That opens up a huge can of worms that I honestly don’t care about. I don’t use it and don’t need it. You do you.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>For those who don’t know, SciSpace is a GenAI. It is basically a GenAI for writing literature reviews.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>I got this email from SciSpace:<o:p></o:p></span></p><table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 width="100%" style='width:100.0%;border-collapse:collapse'><tr><td valign=top style='padding:13.5pt 18.75pt 13.5pt 15.0pt'><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:16.5pt'><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#3C494F;background:white'>Juliette has submitted a request for the full text of your paper.</span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"inherit",serif;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:16.5pt'><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"inherit",serif;color:black'><br>"</span><span style='font-family:"inherit",serif;color:#3C494F'>Bottom-up enterprise information systems: rethinking the roles of central IT departments", published in 2016 in the Journal/Conference "Communications of The ACM".</span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"inherit",serif;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p></td></tr></table><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;display:none'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 width="100%" style='width:100.0%;border-collapse:collapse'><tr><td valign=top style='background:seashell;padding:13.5pt 18.75pt 13.5pt 15.0pt;text-align:inherit'><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:16.5pt'><b><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#181D20;border:solid #DDDDDD 1.0pt;padding:0in;background:seashell'>Note from the sender:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"inherit",serif;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:16.5pt'><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#181D20;background:seashell'>I came across your study and found it highly relevant to our research. Could you kindly share a PDF of the paper? Thank you!</span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"inherit",serif;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p></td></tr></table><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 width="100%" style='width:100.0%;border-collapse:collapse'><tr><td style='padding:13.5pt 18.75pt 13.5pt 18.75pt;border-radius:6px;background-color:inherit'><div align=center><table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 style='border-collapse:collapse;border-radius:6px;background-color:inherit'><tr><td style='background:#FF6F26;padding:0in 0in 0in 0in;border-radius:6px;display:inline-block'><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'><a href="http://links.typeset.io/ls/click?upn=u001.eQzebXSOEfmKs6mSzaixURwxjx94t-2F0u3VCL5kFYLClI08CtmV-2BmSIGdzBoRzazPq6ETwNqn-2B9iqtzMYsJEPqZmkiwV-2FNJaqLoMCWYq9Mbz5TtJD6fdLQilsmGg0NYc5YghF5X-2BCGx3FzeuDFAVjO7DyA9i6nfD8r6AeXrgXsNipBah3M0WvELJNgytSmAC4C504TLpa6A3dOZ-2FSj3kbOjiZS-2FiKzPeirfoZpUc0wIPYWcc6VcUgem2BmqIvRbIMskRDP6i1K5gWI8VeZFl75QlCGSVr-2FKqfaoSKQQiHdEYgkj5q3bwq5R-2BBrQ3tiJxo6d2hvae3-2Bu3MK394SxO8W1RxzmQmYLEwpR-2FWeteQb7knBbUr0RHZh235xduLjOJc-2Bvrq40stRPwPLodC93Gs80TxFin1-2BQoClPGt0FERzbc-3DtL6l_7sNTiGAQawT5ChmCXfoyrJyf22WwTKJ2qYTDllwLnK8EZE1oPZxLvNn-2BAEEubcDtDsMCmWZNnoUNWQQ-2Fzb92wnmRqHcIU1NFPToVXZK9UJHLKlkcvenDMnH1sVjY2gytNflqmF55MB8CBn0waD0-2BOcNb4F-2F45y5yg8wO9IQWzbbAyB-2By0MiCbCsX5i3fSmg2rYb0w-2BwcdmFicyriE9V8j2sThvyqgzD6v8TJgrwTgUOGzspw0tXQNieI9OllaYVaSWt9FjlVqjEBI8IZnshDEV5-2BYxZCXoRwjUobQgdeittThfiI7xuvrktjcQuoMXZlllJ8r2GWDzcORigVden2zM6LBCMkYXJ8-2BNU7WsOl-2FVGHjfFWE8Tkzt0zOHGDwop-2F7E8-2FiuBUYBAvWRB964RDqA-3D-3D" target="_blank"><span style='font-size:10.5pt;color:white;border:solid #FFEFE8 1.0pt;padding:9.0pt;background:#FF6F26;text-decoration:none'>Upload PDF</span></a> <o:p></o:p></span></p></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>I was wondering whether this was a scam and if so, how does the scam work. Here’s why I suspect it is a scam:<o:p></o:p></span></p><ol style='margin-top:0in' start=1 type=1><li class=MsoListParagraph style='margin-left:0in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>Who’s Juliette? There doesn’t seem to be any way for me to figure out who this mysterious requester is. In ResearchGate, they give you the full identity of the requester.<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class=MsoListParagraph style='margin-left:0in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>The paper itself is published in CACM which is open access. One can just download it directly from the ACM DL without an account. Why would any serious requester request the paper from me?<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class=MsoListParagraph style='margin-left:0in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>The structure of the email reminds me of 419s (Nigerian Letter Scam).<o:p></o:p></span></li></ol><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.25in'><span style='font-size:11.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>I was thinking maybe if I upload the paper, this gives SciSpace permission to use the PDF for machine learning since the author is invited to do the upload. But I am not a lawyer, so I am not sure what is going on.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>If you are Juliette, and you are a human being, you don’t need to make a request- CACM allows free downloads. Otherwise, I am asking if anyone has encountered this and knows what is going on.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>Cecil Chua<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div></body></html>