Harvard just admitted something a lot of people have been dancing around. Gary King and Steven Worthington run rapidPeer out of Harvard’s Institute for Quantitative Social Science. Paid human reviewers. Double-blind. Constructive. The kind of reviews journal editors have called…
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CV – 11/5 Just Because You Can
itch.io said the quiet part out loud this week. “Just deleted a couple terabytes of AI slop,” the indie storefront posted, then the line that stuck: just because you can upload ten terabytes of poorly optimized AI-generated models doesn’t mean…
CV – 11/4 Three Times, Openly
France just handed its biggest literary prize to a guy who put ChatGPT in the book on purpose. Tuesday night in Paris, Philippe Jaenada won the 2026 Prix Goncourt for L’Inconnue du quai de Javel (Flammarion)—a long dive into the…
CV – 11/3 Before the Score
Jane Friedman thinks the public AI-writing scandals are about to go quiet. That’s not because nobody’s using the tools. It’s because the screening is moving earlier in the process. In an Oct 30 essay, she argues that many of the…
CV – 11/2 Thirty-Two Versions
A French novelist named Sébastien Bailly has a book coming out from Robert Laffont in February. It’s called Les Touches fantômes, and he made it partly with AI, mostly Claude, he told La Provence. He’s not hiding it. Surprise. Here’s…
CV – 10/30 Not How AI Feels About It
The studio behind the Avengers movies went to Tokyo this week and said something I’ve been waiting for somebody with a big budget to say. At TIFFCOM, the content market of the Tokyo International Film Festival, AGBO’s Chris Brearton and…
CV – 10/28 Sixty Bucks to Prove You’re Human
Here’s a new business model. You write a book. Then you pay somebody to prove you wrote it. ABC News in Australia just ran a long piece asking whether publishing there can survive AI. The industry is calling it a…
CV – 10/27 A Tangle of Sweat-Slicked Limbs
“They collapsed together, a tangle of sweat-slicked limbs and racing hearts.” That line is from Daggermouth, the 2026 BookTok bestseller. Word for word, it also shows up in another book. Stony Brook computer scientist Tuhin Chakrabarty says that’s the kind…
CV – 10/26 370 Books. Whose Are They?
Coral Hart has published more than 370 books since February 2025. That’s not a typo. Three hundred seventy, in about twenty months, nearly all of them with AI. AFP’s Thomas Urbain sat down with her last week, and the story…
CV – 10/23 Editors Are the Radar
The house that published Harry Potter just said the quiet part out loud. And honestly? It’s the most sensible thing I’ve heard from a big publisher all month. Nigel Newton, Bloomsbury’s founder and executive chairman (the guy who signed J.K.…
