Katy Gero is a human-computer interaction researcher focused on creativity, writing technologies, and the ethics of AI. She is a Lecturer in the School of Computer Science at the University of Sydney and previously held fellowships at Harvard University and the Library Innovation Lab. Her research explores how language models impact creative practice, ownership, and learning, with a growing interest in community-driven AI. She holds a PhD from Columbia University and a BS from MIT, and her work has been supported by the NSF, Amazon, and the Brown Institute. Also a poet and essayist, she is the author of The Anxiety of Conception (2025) and co-edits Ensemble Park, a magazine for human-computer co-writing.
The MIT Press surveyed book authors on attitudes towards LLM training practices. In Part 2 of this 2 part post, we discuss recommendations for stakeholders to avoid unintended harms and preserve core scientific and academic values.
The MIT Press surveyed book authors on attitudes towards LLM training practices. In Part 1 of this 2 part post, we discuss the results: authors are not opposed to generative AI per se, but they are strongly opposed to unregulated, extractive practices and worry about the long-term impacts of unbridled generative AI development on the scholarly and scientific enterprise.