Peter Schoppert

State of AI 2025: 100T Token LLM Usage Study | OpenRouter Read OpenRouter's 2025 State of AI report — an empirical 100 trillion token study of real LLM usage, model trends, and developer insights.

OpenRouter says the #1 use of openweight LLMs was roleplay and creative dialogue, “likely because open models can be uncensored and more easily customized …” Horny geeks, yes, but also enormous online scam industry? @suelinwong.bsky.social

India’s tech sovereignty is built on digital dependence In his new book, “Computing in the Age of Decolonization: India’s Lost Technological Revolution,” researcher Dwaipayan Banerjee argues that a focus on technical solutions has made the country dependen...

Highly critical. Engaging argument. My days are full of tech solutions to social problems. And I note that AI superstar investor @leopoldasch made many bucks from shorting Infosys...

What coding with an LLM feels like sometimes.

@nuspress.bsky.social is hiring in Singapore. We're looking for a marketing and comms person to join our small team. See our LinkedIn page for details - www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/43...

NUS Press mourns the passing of our author John Miksic, renowned archaeologist and Emeritus Professor in the Department of Southeast Asian Studies at NUS.

Read more: nuspress.nus.edu.sg/blogs/news/i...

On my way to the annual conference of @shothisttech.bsky.social, on the train to Luxembourg. Feeling with the train announcer (very kindly in English), I am at your disponsible !

Synthetic data is derivative data or why we are all fracked

Rephrasing is a great synthetic data strategy, but it doesn't solve AI's copyright problem. And I spend some time with the writing is just fossil fuel for AIs metaphor. The latest substack.

The History of Bad Ideas: Value-Free Tech 200

For a great jargon-free walkthrough of how STS (Science and Technology Studies) approaches help us understand how to think about new technology, see David Runciman's interview of ‪@shannonvallor.bsky.social‬ on "The history of bad ideas: value-free tech".

This inapt analogy... ...is not a basis for blowing off the most important factor in the fair use analysis

Chewing on the recent court decisions on copyright and AI training in the latest newsletter. Some bitterness, but much that is very tasty indeed... good to see the collective intelligence of the legal system beginning to operate here...

Outbreaks: Updates and Analyses – The Changing Global Health Architecture YouTube video by NUS Medicine

Do you want a great 15-minute update on infectious disease outbreaks around the world? Concise, no nonsense? And paired with a discussion w/ experts (& @nuspress.bsky.social authors) Daniel Bausch and Kishore Mahbubani on prospects for global public health? It's here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=05El...

Nicholas Carr on Substack “Armed with generative AI, a B student can produce A work while turning into a C student.” https://www.newcartographies.com/p/the-myth-of-automated-learning?r=ljyta&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&sh...

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So sorry not to be attending AAS-in-Asia this year in person... missing plenty of @nuspress.bsky.social authors...

Gongs. Smoke. Blood. Earth. | Ateneo Art Gallery Gongs. Smoke. Blood. Earth. explores the history and cultural contexts of Baguio art dating back to the founding of the Baguio Arts Guild in 1986, up to the…

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Was very glad to be able to spend time at the Gongs-Smoke-B lood-Earth show at Ateneo Art Gallery. It is an extension of the Tiw-Tiwong Uncyclopedia which @nuspress.bsky.social distributes ex-Philippines. Enjoyed meeting these Ateneo student looking at the book & discussing their work.

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Full house for the first panel on “regionalist and other decolonising perspectives: honouring T.K. Sabapathy…” at #ForArtHistory2025 @forarthistory.org.uk

map only works on desktop view, but searching is nice on mobile.

We just launched a nifty new map-based interface for the @nuspress.bsky.social #openaccess repository of Southeast Asian archaeological site reports. (Yes, it was vibe-coded…)

The Unbelievable Scale of AI’s Pirated-Books Problem Meta pirated millions of books to train its AI. Search through them here.

You go @alexreisner.bsky.social ! ‘Worse, generative-AI chatbots are presented as oracles that have “learned” from their training data … This decontextualizes knowledge… and makes it harder for writers and researchers to build a reputation and engage in healthy intellectual debate.’

BBC Radio 4 - Human Intelligence, Travellers: Ida Pfeiffer A 19th-century solo female traveller who opened up the idea of travel for everyone.

Ida Pfeiffer is much less known in the anglophone world than she should be... a pioneering woman traveller. Alfred Wallace followed in her footsteps in travelling throught the Malay Archipelago. Learn more about Ida in the BBC's Human Intelligence with @nuspress.bsky.social author John van Wyhe.

Association for Asian Studies - 2025 Annual Meeting - Peter Schoppert Hi - if you'd like to schedule a meeting to chat with Peter Schoppert, Director of NUS Press, please book a meeting here.

The journey to #AAS2025 starts soon! ... if anyone attending would like to have a chat about manuscripts, books, publishing ideas, digital humanities projects, etc, find a time here, or look for me at @nuspress.bsky.social Booth 318.

Spent some time using Perplexity Pro's Deep Research function today. Handling my first query reasonably well, with links to sources, but it hallucinated like mad on my follow up question, confidently presenting gov't programmes that didn't exist, BCG reports and AWS White Papers never published etc

Elon Musk’s terrifying vision for AI All your thoughts belong to him

Especially when this is also in your feed…

Relevance of The Nutmeg’s Curse from @amitav.bsky.social just seems to be growing four years after publication…

Kimchi row sparks claims Chinese AI app DeepSeek swayed to not upset Beijing or Seoul South Korea’s National Intelligence Service has also accused DeepSeek of ‘excessively’ collecting personal data

The AI culture wars: @deepseek.bsky.social says Kimchi is a Chinese thing in Chinese, and was a Korean invention in Korean. I would bet this is a straight-up reflection of its training data rather than a result of post-training, but here we go…

“More than a compilation of knowledge, this is a road map to the future…” Sylvie Briand at launch of Infectious Disease Emergencies.

I totally disagreed with @archive.org’s digital library land grab, but totally understand that the current crisis shows how important is their effort to archive websites, like those of the US government…

Φασαρία on the road to Paris In which I find that while DeepSeek is super-optimised and amazing to use, it also seems to rely — sigh! — on a million pirated books...

I have tried to avoid it but I too have thoughts on DeepSeek...

Preparing for the next pandemic In a clinic in Guinea, a community health worker is puzzled by the number of people in a village becoming severely ill and reports this to their superior, who notifies the Ministry of Health about the...

The review by @profdevisridhar.bsky.social of Infectious Disease Emergencies in @thelancet.bsky.social makes clear that the toughest issues are societal: "infectious disease preparedness and response are increasingly both technical and social and ethical issues." How best to address the latter two?

Preparing for the next pandemic In a clinic in Guinea, a community health worker is puzzled by the number of people in a village becoming severely ill and reports this to their superior, who notifies the Ministry of Health about the...

"Crucial reading for people at all career stages in public health as well as policy makers" The review of our Infectious Disease Emergencies textbook/handbook in Lancet (www.thelancet.com/journals/lan... (free w/ registration).