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This was a week in which AI refused to behave according to anyone’s preferred narrative: strong environmental claims unravelled, legal ca...
Posts and Newsletters
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Happy Black Friday. This Sunday marks three years since ChatGPT first appeared: a toddler in human years, already learning to run, leavin...
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This week has been full of stories that show how fast the conversation around AI, authorship, and creative integrity is moving. From new ...
AI and the Novel
A critical look at the Minderoo Centre's report on AI and the novel: why the research captures important attitudes but the headlines overstate what a convenience sample can tell us.
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Hello from Dublin, where I’ve been speaking at the Publishing Ireland conference. It’s been a really excellent day and good to see many s...
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I sent the first of these newsletters a year ago this week, to twenty-seven friends and colleagues. Since then, it’s grown to over 1,500 ...
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Greetings from New York City, where I’ve been on a working vacation for the last week. It’s my first time back since Covid, and besides t...
Brooklyn Bridge Parkrun
I’m in New York with the family. We were up early for Brooklyn Bridge Parkrun—a very enjoyable, fast, flat course along the waterfront—fo...