This activity explored how AI training datasets and openly licensed works included in those datasets can be better governed and shared as a commons. The project has now been completed.
Cybernetic Forests on Instagram: ""SWIM" is my new video art piece: a meditation on memory, archives, and training data. Drawing from archival footage that is slowly "diffused" within a backdrop of glitched AI outputs, the film is a way of thinking through the tensions between our images as archives and our images as "data." Link in story. #aiart #glitchart #diffusion #criticalai"
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Blair Attard-Frost on resistance to artificial intelligence, backlashes against the governance of AI systems, and possibilities for bottom-up AI governance led by communities and workers.
The purpose of the Data Empowerment Fund is to support a diverse set of initiatives that enable greater individual agency or community control over data.