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PubTech Radar @pubtechr.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

This is a lovely visualisation from Project APE at the University of Zurich’s Social Catalyst Lab, tracking how good AI verifiers are at finding deliberately planted errors in AI-generated research papers, and how much it costs to find them.

Verifier Cost–Reliability Frontier · APE-CRED v0.92

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PubTech Radar @pubtechr.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Simple Pangram testing exercise for academic content to explore how well it works. Takes around 15 min & follows the same passage as it is generated by AI, processed by a humaniser, and then copy-edited by another AI tool. innovationideas.co.uk/wp-content/u...

Pangram AI detected image: 22% of this text is AI

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PubTech Radar @pubtechr.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

I think the community part of the diagram should resonate with academic publishers, and it's something Ben Kaube argues for, but the rest of the diagram doesn’t quite work. I had a go at an alternative, from a slightly different angle. What do you think?

The changing route to scholarly literature.

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PubTech Radar @pubtechr.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

🚨 New issue of PubTech Radar is out: lnkd.in/eaCsVfja

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PubTech Radar @pubtechr.bsky.social · 27/11/2025

From Pietro Schirano (@skirano) on X writing about Nano Banana Pro: "Here’s my favorite use case so far: take papers or really long articles and turn them into a detailed whiteboard photo." How to video: x.com/skirano/stat...

Photo of an AI-generated white board about the LLama 3 herd of models paper

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PubTech Radar @pubtechr.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

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...

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PubTech Radar @pubtechr.bsky.social · 18/05/2025

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-...

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PubTech Radar @pubtechr.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

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:

Figure 2.A.5. AI Bot Traffic as a Percentage of Total
Traffic to Sites. AI bot traffic as a percentage of total web traffic shows
a clear upward trend over time

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PubTech Radar @pubtechr.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

More evidence Zero-click search is taking over from a Bain Briefing note: www.bain.com/insights/goo...

About 80% of search users rely on AI summaries at least 40% of the time

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PubTech Radar @pubtechr.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

Interesting: “Academic journals and publishers are a major referral category for both services, with about 16% of traffic from ChatGPT and 22% from Perplexity.”

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PubTech Radar @pubtechr.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

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?

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PubTech Radar @pubtechr.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

Great new issue of #Scalene about #AI and #PeerReview. Very much agree with Chris about peer review becoming more professionalised:

CL: I’m increasingly convinced that reviewing will become more professionalized (maybe carried out by editorial board members, along with multiple AI tools), and this is one more data point as to why change is required in current peer review methods.

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PubTech Radar @pubtechr.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

@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...

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PubTech Radar @pubtechr.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

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...

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PubTech Radar @pubtechr.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

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...

Data about uses of AI anew newsrooms 2025. Top is backend automation with 60% saying v important.

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PubTech Radar @pubtechr.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

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!

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PubTech Radar @pubtechr.bsky.social · 23/12/2024

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.

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PubTech Radar @pubtechr.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

🚀 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

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