Context, Consent, and Control
The Three C’s of Data Participation in the Age of AI
What would it take for you to be comfortable sharing your data online?
That was the question I was thinking about a lot last week after attending the Creative Commons roundtable at NYU in New York City. I shared some of those thoughts in a piece for Tech Policy Press, organizing my thinking into three broad categories:
- Context: When and where can my data be used, and by whom?
- Consent: Inform me of how that data is going to be used.
- Control: Allow me to refuse the use of my data for certain uses.
You can read the whole piece through the link below.
I was also delighted to chat with Neja Berger for an episode of the Tactics & Practice podcast, which is doing a special series on “(Un)Real Data, Real Effects” curated by !Mediengruppe Bitnik (Carmen Weisskopf & Domagoj Smoljo) for the Aksioma Institute for Contemporary Art. You can check out that podcast at the link below, but also check the archives for interviews with folks like Felix Stalder and Wendy Chun, with Günseli Yalcinkaya and Valentina Tanni coming up.
Dig It: Artificial Life Coach
As mentioned last week, this newsletter may be pointing externally often over the next few weeks, but I’ll be back to regular posting soon. But I also wanted to point you all to a brilliant new satirical work by frequent collaborator and ARRG! conspirator Şerife Wong: Artificial Life Coach. You can find videos on Instagram, TikTok, and YouTube, but don’t overlook the incredible website which doubles as a great archive of critical-AI resources.
