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Probing How Users Interact with Turn-Level Design Frictions for AI Chatbots
Helen Weixu Chen, Katy Ilonka Gero
AI chatbots can help people write faster, but they can also encourage overreliance by making it easy to turn minimal input into usable text. We study turn-level design friction: in…
From Planning to Revision: How AI Writing Support at Different Stages Alters Ownership
Katy Ilonka Gero, Tao Long, Carly Schnitzler +1
Although AI assistance can improve writing quality, it can also decrease feelings of ownership. Ownership in writing has important implications for attribution, rights, norms, and…
Seed Bank, Co-op, Stoop Swap: Metaphors for Governing Language Model Data for Creative Writing
Alicia Guo, Carly Schnitzler, Katy Gero
How might we govern a language model run for and by creative writers? While generative AI use is on the rise, many language models are created and owned in ways that limit writers'…
A Paradigm for Creative Ownership
Tejaswi Polimetla, Katy Ilonka Gero, Elena Leah Glassman
As generative AI tools become embedded in creative practice, questions of ownership in co-creative contexts are pressing. Yet studies of human-AI collaboration often invoke "owners…
Not Just Novelty: A Longitudinal Study on Utility and Customization of an AI Workflow
Tao Long, Katy Ilonka Gero, Lydia B. Chilton
Generative AI brings novel and impressive abilities to help people in everyday tasks. There are many AI workflows that solve real and complex problems by chaining AI outputs togeth…