katy ilonka gero

After a long break from twitter, I plan to take an even longer one. Instead, I'll be on the cozy web [1], and maybe mastodon. Send me an email! Also: I am recruiting PhD students to join me at the University of Sydney. Check my website for details. [1] contraptions.venkateshrao.com/p/the-extended…

Excited to announce the NeurIPS 2024 workshop on Behavioral Machine Learning! Are you working on AI methods that incorporate models of human behavior? Submit a paper by Sept 10! We invite submissions across CS fields and the behavioral sciences. More: behavioralml.org

I find this extremely hilarious.

Creators should be governing themselves, and finding the leverage such that tech companies have to respect their own solutions, not the other way around.

They also don't trust academics, publishers, or even agents. They only trust other writers to advocate for their interests. OpenAI says they're collaborating with creators, content owners, & regulators, but it can't be that collaborative when there are such divergent interests.

OpenAI wants to build a 'Media Manager' for creators to "tell us what they own and specify how they want their works to be included or excluded." In my research with writers, writers don't trust big tech to manage such a thing--- openai.com/index/approach…

New/exclusive: African workers who moderate platforms like Instagram + train AI for places like OpenAI (often for >$2/hr) pub'ed an open letter to Biden. They say US tech companies need to stop paying "modern day slavery" level wages & union busting: wired.com/story/low-paid…

If we could get around a scarcity model, and encourage and highlight ways for more researchers to be successful, people might feel less need to rush through their research, and instead do slow work with stronger results.

even if it does feel like far too many research papers are coming out, and people are publishing way more than is reasonable. That, too, may be driven by a sense of scarcity--if I don't publish enough, I won't be able to have a successful career.

Just read "The dark side of optimism: Musical dreams, belief, and gambling", and the authors note that similar themes emerge in other high-risk careers like artists more broadly, professional sports and even **academia**. journals.sagepub.com/doi/epub/10.11…

keep the internet big and wild and weird. hang out in some small spaces. 🌳🌳🌳

for some reason I'm drawn to Jackie Liu's difficult and depressing to-do tool: taper.badquar.to/12/to-do.html

amidst AI news, I have been working through taper 12, a literary magazine for small computational pieces. each piece is just 2kb big, and issue 12 is about tools --- tools to change the world, tools to understand it, as well as literal tools you can use. taper.badquar.to/12/