What a delight to get to meet some of you in person! Thank you for being so welcoming. As promised, this page rounds up the resources we talked about. Please see the PDF handout (via Vivek) for protected links. Please keep those safe; they are only for you.
Mentioned in the Talk
- How to turn off Copilot AI in MS Office
- University publishing programs I teach in (where to learn the job)
- Copyediting: A Closer Look, curated by Vivek Kumar
- AI output is not copyrightable itself
- Collett, Clementine, Dr. (2025) The Impact of Generative AI on the Novel
- Using AI, even in cover art, can disqualify works from awards —
- False positives often misidentify works as AI
- USA court (Bartz v. Anthropic) deemed that training LLMs on books that were lawfully acquired (e.g., bought) qualifies as fair use, but obtaining books from pirated libraries may be copyright infringement.
- “Of all the dangers of AI, inaccuracy is the biggest risk companies face. Nearly 1/3 of companies have been negatively impacted by AI inaccuracy at least once.”
- Macaque selfie? British wildlife photographer David J. Slater.
- Deloitte AI misuse story in video short (reel)
- “AI Search Has a Citation Problem” by Klaudia Ja?wi?ska and Aisvarya Chandrasekar in Columbia Journalism Review
- Ranked AI Hallucination Rates by Model
- Data protection laws in India
- What to charge: How to Raise Your Rates; A Surprising Way to Increase Your Pay (includes salary data)
- Surit mentioned that my post of 25 Project Red Flags changed his way of thinking about acceptable boundaries in business. These vary, culturally, of course! Erin Brenner’s book from U of Chicago Press will also help in understanding the mindset of the freelancing marketplace in the USA. Canada shares much of that same mindset, though we are a bit more generous about pricing unless needs make high prices necessary. There’s also this fact that surprises most people: raising your rates can find better clients who are more organized, better at writing, and pay more quickly (though that one point is far less assured).
To deepen understanding of the issues
- Centre for Humane Technology, and their column on Substack as well as a podcast. You may also apply to attend their monthly AI briefings.
- George Walkley’s newsletter on AI in a publishing context.
- Grammar Girl Mignon Fogarty’s AI Sidequest newsletter on AI
- Copyright Clearance Centre AI-related resource page—especially their PDF “7 Common Copyright Pitfalls in GenAI Workflows“
- CIEP glossary of AI terms
- Good summary of the (March ’26) state of USA copyright law concerning AI, by Jane Friedman
- How LLMs fail at simple tasks like alphabetizing and why a lexicographer is way more cost-effective as a tool (podcast).
- A 3+ hour explanation of LLMs “for the general population”
- GitHub explains how the LLMs were trained (explanation is just a few seconds!).
- What “hallucinating” means for an LLM (making stuff up).
- When AI knows it is lying, & there’s no safety checks (a short video “reel”).
- Berne Convention on intellectual property (copyright), and one perspective on India’s role among the 160+ countries who are part of it.
- A look at how AI might accelerate production
- Not declaring the use of AI is considered academic misconduct
Fact-checking how-to guides
The Chicago Guide to Fact-Checking, by Brooke Borel (University of Chicago Press, 2016).
After the Fact: A Guide to Fact-Checking for Magazines and Other Media, by Cynthia Brouse (2007).
The Fact Checker’s Bible: A Guide to Getting It Right, by Sarah Harrison Smith (Anchor Books, 2004).
The Lifespan of a Fact, by John D’Agata and Jim Fingal (Norton, 2012).
“How to Fact Check the Atlantic”, Yvonne Rolzhausen.
Find Adrienne Online
You are on my primary website right now. I also maintain the Editing in Word 365 website. Now back in Canada, our privacy laws and concerns over the USA accessing our data means that I will not be using WhatsApp, but you are welcome to contact me by email! My email ID is Adrienne@SciEditor.ca. I prefer to use they/them pronouns but using she for me is not offensive.
I welcome connecting on LinkedIn! Though you’ll find user accounts for me everywhere using the ID SciEditor, I only post regularly on LinkedIn and Blusky. You can also find me in the Facebook groups for the Indian Copyeditors Forum, Business + Professional Development for Editors, Neurodivergent Editors’ Lounge and the Editors’ Association of Earth groups. And of course, I use email: Adrienne@SciEditor.ca.
Credits: I used Perchance to generate some images in the slides.
Indian publishing info shared from the group:
- The Indian book market is estimated at over USD $6 billion, making it one of the fastest-growing globally.
- India publishes close to 90,000 new titles annually, placing it among the top 10 publishing nations globally.
- By the time the International Kolkata Book Fair 2026 closes after two weeks, it will have drawn close to three million visitors and recorded sales of over Rs 26 crore (INR 260,000,000).
- The Guardian Can’t Question Profusion Of Lit-Fests: India Reads, Writes and Celebrates Words | Outlook India
