Sol Rashidi on "intellectual atrophy”: businessofcreativity.beehiiv.com/p/issue-98-a... Business wants "pace and profusion, quickness over quality, speed over substance - we are looking for shortcuts everywhere, and all in search of 'more'."

Thinking it might be time to dump #ChatGPT 5.1. I am having so many problems with the model. I oost a small table of preferred date/time mtg response data, I get back incomprehensible/inaccurate results after much thought. Switch back to 5, and I get an immediate and correct response.

New GenAI for Curious people post about AI's original sin - copyright theft: generativeaiforcuriouspeople.substack.com/p/ais-origin...

A new report from Scholastica and Maverick Publishing surveyed 83 small and medium journal publishers from 21 countries about their tech challenges: lp.scholasticahq.com/technology-n... Some stats: * Current AI adoption is limited. Only 8% of publishers are using AI tools extensively.

Maverick’s Q4 Insider newsletter is out now – themed “Building a Foundation for Technical Success” with details on how a systematic audit and prioritized roadmap can provide a managed way to improve systems and the workflows that depend on them. Read the insider: bit.ly/47vtn6q

Why did Monday do this to us? youtu.be/5Hkcw_j8js0?... 🎵 AI had the time of my life, AI never felt this way before...🎵 Sometimes AI should stay in the corner!

New interview in the newsletter: Jonathan Woahn on how his startup Cashmere gives publishers control over their content in AI systems. As Jonathan puts it, they provide tools to manage entitlement, security, access, reporting, and turn-key RAG infrastructure. open.substack.com/pub/pubtechr...

I built this quiz for an AI Safety Collab - Summer 2025 Program project. Takes 2 mins and tells you your AI safety personality mine's pictured - try it? innovationideas.co.uk/aisafetyquiz/

I found Musk's discussion of how they’re building Grokipedia interesting in the latest All In podcast: youtu.be/j6_VfR-CyuM. Grok is teaching itself reasoning, then rewriting ~1M Wikipedia pages. The goal: a self-updating, “maximally truth-seeking” AI that fixes errors and filters bias.

Very interested in this and already have my ticket 🎟️. Looking forward to it 🧠🤖: www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...

📢 A British start-up, Books By People, is introducing an 'Organic Literature' certification to help readers identify books written by humans rather than machines. The first certified title, Telenovela by Gonzalo C Garcia, is due out next month, published by Galley Beggar Press. 🔗 booksbypeople.org

New #GenerativeAIforCuriousPeople post inspired by Sam Altman’s comment that OpenAI is processing 3.15 quadrillion tokens. I had to look up what a quadrillion was (15 zeros) & then I wondered what else is counted in Quadrillions… generativeaiforcuriouspeople.substack.com/p/quadrillio...

Periodic Labs: A new $300 million seed-backed startup aiming to build “AI scientists” — autonomous systems that hypothesise, run physical experiments, gather data, learn, iterate — especially in the physical sciences. They’re starting with materials/superconductors. www.youtube.com/watch?v=5FoW...

"The research community doesn’t necessarily want ‘peer review’ — it wants quality assurance, fraud detection, constructive feedback, ethical oversight, and credible validation." @innovationideas.bsky.social / @scholarlykitchen.bsky.social

Maverick’s copywriting services help scholarly publishers use the written word to reach their audience in a variety of ways. Learn more and see examples in our new blog post “Get the Message Out with Maverick’s Copywriting Services” bit.ly/3UZ3NzC

A new post for Maverick’s Insider blog provides complete details of our Interim Placement services, including examples of how we’ve solved staffing challenges for numerous publishers. Read “Solve Staffing Challenges with Interim Support” bit.ly/3JkuBb1

Fascinating - both the story and the robot. Is this Marketing or Art? thenomadsalon.substack.com/p/ai-da-and-...

From @pressgazette.co.uk: A PR agency is flogging an AI that auto-generates expert quotes with fictional bios and pre-written charm aimed at Journalists. It’s fast and it's scalable, but do we really want to live in this kind of world? 🔗 pressgazette.co.uk/news/pr-agen...

Interesting listen - This episode of The Inquiry discusses the trade-offs between productivity and mental acuity in the digital age: www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

A reminder of how pervasive gender bias can be. This study found that when given identical profiles, ChatGPT’s o3 model recommended a $280,000 target salary for a woman versus $400,000 for a man solely based on gender: thenextweb.com/news/chatgpt...

New study from the Max‑Planck Institute: ChatGPT has begun influencing human speech. Analysis of over 740,000 hours of academic podcasts and YouTube lectures shows a significant surge in ChatGPT‑preferred vocabulary such as “delve,” “comprehend” and “meticulous” since 2022. arxiv.org/pdf/2409.01754

Think Selection Managing Director, Danny Parnes, explains how he goes about identifying and recruiting candidates with the skills and expertise that reflect the new landscape of publishing. Read “Recruitment trends in publishing: Adapting to a changing landscape” bit.ly/40aTJ9D

A long and interesting read from Nicholas Carr. A historical critique of our obsession with 'informational compression'. He makes a compelling case that the tech world’s love of efficiency risks draining the richness, soul, & meaning from the world: www.newcartographies.com/p/against-co...

Fame at last! Really touched to get a shoutout from @georgewalkley.com during his fantastic talk, AI: Threats and Opportunities for Publishers, at the PLS conference today. Great insights and perspectives. Link to AI in academic publishing case studies list: coda.io/d/AI-Powered...

The web is no longer an open picnic for AI. Cloudflare’s new Pay-Per-Crawl feature lets publishers charge bots per request, dusting off the HTTP 402 code and handing creators more control: blog.cloudflare.com/introducing-...

“Afterlife” is a wonderfully creative yet utterly disturbing example of AI storytelling. It's evocative, unsettling, and well-crafted. It pulls you into a world where bots and avatars feel eerily human and alive. #AI #Veo3 www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Iig...

A nice starter AI-Scholarly Publishing list here from Helen King @innovationideas.bsky.social - including @clearskiesadam.bsky.social, Tim Vines @dataseerai.bsky.social Thad, @ianmulvany.bsky.social and @jayaisdg.bsky.social www.linkedin.com/pulse/30-peo...

Westminster seems to have finally remembered that the creative industries exist. Proposal for a new "Creative Content Exchange as a marketplace for selling, buying, licensing, and enabling permitted access to digitised cultural and creative assets": assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/685943...

📝 Wax.is is a new open-source doc editor for teams. It has real-time editing, sharing, PDF generator, comments, Word import & an AI designer, assistant, and knowledgebase (all AI tools are optional, off by default). Read about it here: www.robotscooking.com/announcing-w..., try it here: app.wax.is

What happens when you let AI models play a game of trust and betrayal? Turns out, things get wild. From unexpected alliances to epic backstabs, AI Diplomacy reveals how these models handle pressure, strategy, and trust. 👉 every.to/context-wind...

Science-integrity project will root out bad medical papers ‘and tell everyone’ Thrilled to announce this new $900,000 project headed by @jamesheathers.bsky.social

I wrote a history of recent AI development in 32 images of otters using wifi on airplanes, from images to video to code. It shows two big trends: rapid improvements in AI models of all types and the growth of open weights AI models. www.oneusefulthing.org/p/the-recent...

So, I think it's time I begin, in detailed specifics, talking about the mess that is Unbound / Boundless as a book publisher, in essence stealing most of a years royalties from me and many other authors, as a result of poor financial decisions, and legal BS. Please read and share this thread.

Q: Why can't these companies brand and name products? OpenAI has a model drop down with "GPT-4o," "o1," "o3-mini," "o3-mini-high," "o1 pro mode." There are thousands of coffee shops and dog groomers better at product naming. Hire one of those people, guys.

Apply TODAY (they're a fantastic team to work with!).

Reasons librarians are against use of LLMs/generative Ai. 1. Performance reasons e.g. it "Hallucinates" 2. Impact on user from using it. 3. Environment 4. Copyright theft . Some thoughts (1)

🔖 Cracking set of slides from @ezraeeman.bsky.social Eeman about where AI is taking media. Lots to reflect on here: media.licdn.com/dms/document...

"Being diagnosed with a "benign" brain tumour may sound reassuring, but for so many of us, the effects are anything but..." Important petition: chng.it/dBp99LQpmP

What’s AI *actually* doing in academic publishing? I’ve been collecting use cases across peer review, production, discovery & more. 👇 🔗 coda.io/@helen-king/... Some patterns are emerging:

🧠💻 New "Purpose Mode" browser extension helps users combat social media distractions by disabling features like infinite scroll and autoplay. Developed by researchers at Carnegie Mellon, users reported a decrease in perceived distractions from 28% to 7%: techxplore.com/news/2025-04...

AI Publishing Collective and CambridgeAI have partnered to launch a special event on "AI in Publishing" at Fora in Spitalfields, London, on May 14th. If you are interested in #publishing and #AI this is for you: www.meetup.com/meetup-group...

🧠💡In a world hooked on ticking boxes and endless meetings, @ogilvy.com suggest that a bit of proper thinking might be useful. Enter the "thinking sprint" a structured pause for deep, uninterrupted contemplation, designed to spark innovation & prevent burnout. www.fastcompany.com/91321420/psa...

Interesting piece on how AI is evolving from a helpful academic tool to a central force in knowledge creation, peer review, and publishing. Academics risk becoming intellectual orphans, detached from their work & the institutions meant to support them www.universityworldnews.com/post.php?sto...

📅 The next AI in Publishing Collective meetup is on 29 April & sponsored by @silverchairnews.bsky.social. Looking forward to hearing from: Ben Kaube –@cassyni.bsky.social Alexandra Howat –@67bricks.bsky.social Kaveh Bazargan –@kaveh1000.bsky.social 👉 Register: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/ai-publish...

Every AI copyright argument you’ve ever heard - now in bingo form. Genius from @glovelace.bsky.social 😂🎯 open.substack.com/pub/grahamlo...

📊 Interesting stat: Character.ai reportedly handles 20,000 queries per second—around a fifth of Google’s search volume. Not for directions, recipes or research. But for simulated conversations with AI “companions”. Full article in @technologyreview.com www.technologyreview.com/2025/04/08/1...

Sara Lloyd: “To bring people with us we must ensure they understand that automation does not have to sit in direct opposition to human work, but can be introduced where it supplements and enhances. We are not pursuing a strategy of binary choices.” www.thebookseller.com/comment/wher...

Interesting read: What’s next for journalism in the AI age? @ezraeeman.bsky.social (WAN-IFRA) shares 5 key takeaways from their January AI study tour to San Francisco. 👇 1️⃣ Preparing for a post-link reality 2️⃣ The AI ecosystem remains fragile 3️⃣ Foundation models commoditised

"For me, the repository was supposed to be a three-hour tour, not a life sentence. ArXiv was originally conceived to be fully automated, so as not to scuttle my research career. " Interview with Paul Ginsparg. www.wired.com/story/inside...

New issue of PubTech Radar: Includes STM Trends, AI search tools, Oversight, FAIR², AI Discovery Assistant, Scite Assistant, ZAIA, AI supply chain snags, Anara, Hum's vision, Michel Upshall on repositories, ShelfImage, and more... open.substack.com/pub/pubtechr...