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Fascinating - sources that are ok/not ok to use for third-party RLHF training of Anthropic’s models.

More at: www.businessinsider.com/anthropic-su...
July 28, 2025 at 8:32 AM
A recap of our AI in Publishing meetup, co-hosted by Cambridge AI and the AI Publishing Collective. Ivy Cavendish (Springer Nature) opened with a talk on when not to use AI.

www.linkedin.com/pulse/event-...
May 18, 2025 at 11:58 AM
The "TollBit AI User Agent Index" is a self-promotional report, but it includes useful data on scraping activity and broader trends across the AI industry. tollbit.com/bots/24q4/ Figure 2.A.5. AI Bot Traffic as a Percentage of Total Traffic to Sites in their network:
March 25, 2025 at 10:06 AM
More evidence Zero-click search is taking over from a Bain Briefing note: www.bain.com/insights/goo...
March 19, 2025 at 11:48 AM
Interesting: “Academic journals and publishers are a major referral category for both services, with about 16% of traffic from ChatGPT and 22% from Perplexity.”
March 6, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Great post from Ethan Mollick: open.substack.com/pub/oneusefu...

Curious about access to paywalled continent within these models and if/when this will change. As more academic publishers do deals with AI companies for use in LLMs rather than use in search will this change?
February 3, 2025 at 1:51 PM
Great new issue of #Scalene about #AI and #PeerReview. Very much agree with Chris about peer review becoming more professionalised:
February 3, 2025 at 11:59 AM
@eggletonkim.bsky.social wishes for better integration between RI tools and submission systems. @dataseerai.bsky.social and @clearskiesadam.bsky.social announce a new partnership with @highwirepress.bsky.social 🙂

www.highwirepress.com/blog/clear-s...
January 30, 2025 at 10:12 AM
Quick take by @glovelace.bsky.social about the lack of info & compensation scholarly writers have revived wrt #GenAI licensing deals:
open.substack.com/pub/grahamlo...
January 21, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Interesting data about use of #GenAI in newsrooms from new & v good @reutersinstitute.bsky.social journalism, media, and technology trends and predictions 2025 report.

Q: Different uses of AI that media leaders think will be important in 2025

reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/journalism-m...
January 20, 2025 at 6:10 PM
Date for the diary - I'm planning a new meetup in Central London on 11 Feb about #AI, #Publishing & #EdTech Meetup to explore the latest trends and innovations. If you would like to come along please register at: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/ai-publish...
Speakers and location coming soon!
January 15, 2025 at 11:44 PM
Results of @oreilly.bsky.social experiments to create better summary podcasts from five of their books. Comparison with NotebookLM generated podcasts on oreilly.com. Interesting method.
December 23, 2024 at 2:47 PM
🚀 Nee launch: Hana - the AI platform behind the excellent newsletter, MediaMorph and the hyper-local newsletter, Bristol By Hana News. hana.news

#AI, @smiler29.bsky.social, #Hana, #NewsletterTech
December 10, 2024 at 1:27 PM