11 months ago

Data provided by humans can be seen as a form of labor that powers artificial intelligence; https://www.economist.com/the-world-if/2018/07/07/data-workers-of-the-world-unite. Compare this with how the music industry dealt with a handful of 80’s hip hop artists who “borrowed” existing tracks.

“Data Dignity” is a movement that was forged before generative AI came about, and is firmly connected to noted tech commentator https://www.newyorker.com/science/annals-of-artificial-intelligence/there-is-no-ai. The theory is that the economy should be altered to compensate people when data about them is used, or the data they created is remixed.

There are three basic paths to inject meaning back into the web, and help fix the attribution problem: Let AI create and maintain metadata.