My mother’s book as training data – The Boston Globe

Jane Rosenzweig is director of the Harvard College Writing Center.

When my mother died of cancer 20 years ago at age 62, she left behind a family that was not ready to lose her — and two academic history books that had been published by NYU Press. Academic books tend to be read by a fairly specialized (and small) audience, so I was surprised this spring — although I probably shouldn’t have been — to find one of her books in LibGen, the pirated document collection that Meta used to…